On the prebiotic synthesis of ribonucleotides: Photoanomerisation of cytosine nucleosides and nucleotides revisited

ChemBioChem

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1170-1179

  Powner, Matthew W ^a   Anastasi, Carole ^a   Crowe, Michael A ^a   Parkes, Alastair L ^a   Raftery, Jim ^a   Sutherland, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nucleosides; Photoanomerisation; Photochemistry; Prebiotic; RNA

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; RIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBAMATES; CYTIDINE; CYTOSINE; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEOSIDES; PYRANS; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDES; PYRIMIDINES; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547555670     PISSN: 14394227     EISSN: 14397633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700098     Document Type: Article

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