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SUBMITTER: Castaneda AD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6753121 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190919 1
One of the most challenging fundamental problems in establishing prebiotically plausible routes for phosphorylation reactions using phosphate is that they are thermodynamically unfavorable in aqueous conditions. Diamidophosphate (DAP), a potentially prebiotically relevant compound, was shown to phosphorylate nucleosides in aqueous medium, albeit at a very slow rate (days/weeks). Here, we demonstrate that performing these reactions within an aerosol environment, a suitable model for the early Ear ...[more]