Prebiotic chemistry: A new modus operandi

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1580, 2011, Pages 2870-2877

  Powner, Matthew W ^a,b   Sutherland, John D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemoselectivity; Phosphorylation; Prebiotic chemistry; Systems chemistry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIPID; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTEIN; SYNERGISM;

EID: 80052927077     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0134     Document Type: Article

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