A stereoelectronic effect in prebiotic nucleotide synthesis

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 655-657

  Choudhary, Amit ^a   Kamer, Kimberli J ^a   Powner, Matthew W ^b   Sutherland, John D ^b   Raines, Ronald T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; HYDROLYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STEREOELECTRONIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 77955040270     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb100093g     Document Type: Article

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