Prebiotic selection and assembly of proteinogenic amino acids and natural nucleotides from complex mixtures
作者:Saidul Islam、Dejan-Krešimir Bučar、Matthew W. Powner
DOI:10.1038/nchem.2703
日期:2017.6
permits ribonucleotide synthesis, even from complex sugar mixtures. Remarkably, aminal formation also overcomes the thermodynamically favoured isomerization of glyceraldehyde into dihydroxyacetone because only the aminal of glyceraldehyde separates from the equilibrating mixture. Finally, we show that aminal formation provides a novel pathway to amino acids that avoids the synthesis of the non-proteinogenic