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SUBMITTER: Mariani A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5488188 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mariani Angelica A Sutherland John D JD
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170503 23
Non-enzymatic oligomerization of activated ribonucleotides leads to ribonucleic acids that contain a mixture of 2',5'- and 3',5'-linkages, and overcoming this backbone heterogeneity has long been considered a major limitation to the prebiotic emergence of RNA. Herein, we demonstrate non-enzymatic chemistry that progressively converts 2',5'-linkages into 3',5'-linkages through iterative degradation and repair. The energetic costs of this proofreading are met by the hydrolytic turnover of a phosph ...[more]