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Abstract
The theory is proposed that the pyrimidines in extant nucleic acids are postenzymatic substitutes for their isoelectronic and isogeometric position 3-bonded purine analogs xanthine and isoguanine, which were sibling products in a preenzymatic de novo purine pathway.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3422484 PMCID: PMC279720 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.4.1134
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205