Borate Minerals and RNA Stability

Borate Minerals and RNA Stability

The abiotic origin of genetic polymers faces two major problems: a prebiotically plausible polymerization mechanism and the maintenance of their polymerized state outside a cellular environment. The stabilizing action of borate on ribose having been reported, we have explored the possibility that bo...

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Main Authors: Ernesto Di Mauro, Claudia Crestini, Raffaele Saladino, Cristina Cossetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-08-01
Series:Polymers
Subjects:
origin of genetic polymers
RNA stability
RNA hydrolysis
borate minerals
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/2/3/211/

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