RNA made in its own mirror image

Sandip A. Shelke and Joseph A. Piccirilli ()
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Sandip A. Shelke: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Joseph A. Piccirilli: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 515, issue 7527, 347-348

Abstract: An RNA enzyme has been generated that can assemble a mirror-image version of itself. The finding helps to answer a long-standing conundrum about how RNA molecules could have proliferated on prebiotic Earth. See Letter p.440

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nature13935

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