Formamide as the main building block in the origin of nucleic acids

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Costanzo, Giovanna ^a   Saladino, Raffaele ^a,b   Crestini, Claudia ^c   Ciciriello, Fabiana ^d   Di Mauro, Ernesto ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYCLIC NUCLEOSIDE; FORMAMIDE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOSIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; FORMAMIDE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY;

BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; FORMAMIDES; NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSORS; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 34648860569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-S2-S1     Document Type: Article

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