Non-canonical nucleosides and chemistry of the emergence of life

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sidney Becker, Christina Schneider, Antony Crisp, Thomas Carell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07222-w