Ribozyme activity of RNA nonenzymatically polymerized from 3',5'-Cyclic GMP

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5362-5383

  Pino, Samanta ^a   Costanzo, Giovanna ^b   Giorgi, Alessandra ^a   Šponer, Jiří ^c   Šponer, Judit E ^d   Di Mauro, Ernesto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Origin of life; Ribozymes; RNA; RNA origin; RNA polymerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891719926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15125362     Document Type: Article

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