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Title:
An all-purine precursor of nucleic acids.
Authors:
Wächtershäuser, G.
Publication:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 85, Issue 4, 1988, pp.1134-1135
Publication Date:
02/1988
Origin:
JSTOR; PNAS
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.85.4.1134
Bibliographic Code:
1988PNAS...85.1134W

Abstract

The theory is proposed that the pyrimidines in extant nucleic acids are postenzymatic substitutes for their isoelectronic and isogeometric position 3-bonded purine analogs xanthine and isoguanine, which were sibling products in a preenzymatic de novo purine pathway.
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