Adenosine Monophosphate Forms Ordered Arrays in Multilamellar Lipid Matrices: Insights into Assembly of Nucleic Acid for Primitive Life

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Toppozini, Laura ^a,b   Dies, Hannah ^a   Deamer, David W ^c   Rheinstädter, Maikel C ^a,b,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; RIBOSE;

ARTICLE; BRAGG PEAK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULE LATERAL ORGANIZATION; MULTILAMELLAR PHOSPHOLIPID MATRIX; NUCLEIC ACID ASSEMBLY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; POLYMERIZATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE; DNA; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RIBOSE; RNA;

EID: 84877122091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062810     Document Type: Article

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