The origin and evolution of ribonucleotide reduction

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 604-636

  Lundin, Daniel ^a   Berggren, Gustav ^a,c   Logan, Derek T ^b   Sjöberg, Britt Marie ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allosteric regulation; Deoxyribonucleotides; DNA building blocks; Primordial hydrogen atom abstraction; Protein evolution; Radical chemistry; Redox chemistry; Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR); RNA RNP world; Structural phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924325740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5010604     Document Type: Review

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