Looking beyond the RNA structural neighborhood for potentially primordial genetic systems

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2354-2356

  Sutherland, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Base pairing; Molecular recognition; Nucleic acids; Prebiotic chemistry; RNA

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BASE PAIRING; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

RNA;

RNA;

BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; SHORT SURVEY;

BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 34250807157     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200604374     Document Type: Short Survey

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