Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8030-8035

  Mast, Christof B ^a   Schink, Severin ^a   Gerland, Ulrich ^a   Braun, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Nonenzymatic) emergence of RNA; Hydrothermal vents; Molecular evolution; Nonequilibrium; RNA world

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

(NONENZYMATIC) EMERGENCE OF RNA; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONEQUILIBRIUM; RNA WORLD;

BIOPOLYMERS; CALIBRATION; CATALYSIS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GEOLOGY; KINETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERIZATION; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84877865574     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303222110     Document Type: Article

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