The Search for a Potentially Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleotides via Arabinose-3-phosphate and Its Cyanamide Derivative
作者:Carole Anastasi、Fabien F. Buchet、Michael A. Crowe、Madeleine Helliwell、Jim Raftery、John D. Sutherland
DOI:10.1002/chem.200701351
日期:2008.3.7
For the RNA world hypothesis to be accepted, the constitutional self-assembly of RNA will have to be demonstrated. Conceptually, the simplest route to RNA involves nucleotide polymerisation. Activated pyrimidine nucleotides can be derived from arabinose-3-phosphate under potentiallyprebiotic conditions, but the prebioticsynthesis of this sugar phosphate has not hitherto been investigated. The results