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Abstract
The co-condensation of guanosine- and cytidine-5'-phospho-2-methylimidazolide on various oligodeoxynucleotides containing C and G has been studied. We find that GC7 is an effective template for the incorporation of C into products of the form GnC, whereas C7G does not act as a template for C incorporation. The template C3GC3GC3GC3 directs the synthesis of complementary products, but the yield of long oligomers is very small. Templates in which G residues are contiguous or separated by a single C residue are ineffective, while templates containing the sequence GCCG are very inefficient. The significance of these findings in the context of prebiotic chemistry is discussed.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 3091841 DOI: 10.1007/bf02099904
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Evol ISSN: 0022-2844 Impact factor: 2.395