Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

Sidney Becker, Christina Schneider, Antony Crisp and Thomas Carell ()
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Sidney Becker: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Christina Schneider: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Antony Crisp: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Thomas Carell: Department of Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-4

Abstract: Abstract Prebiotic chemistry, driven by changing environmental parameters provides canonical and a multitude of non-canonical nucleosides. This suggests that Watson-Crick base pairs were selected from a diverse pool of nucleosides in a pre-Darwinian chemical evolution process.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w

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