Sesión del 18 de febrero del 2014: Etiología química de la estructura del DNA

Hola a todos,
Les mando el art. que quedamos para comentar el martes en el seminario.
Saludos,

Damian

El artículo: Eschenmoser_1999_Etiol_Nucl_Ac_Structure

Science 25 June 1999:
Vol. 284 no. 5423 pp. 2118-2124
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5423.2118
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Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure

Albert Eschenmoser

Abstract

Systematic chemical studies indicate that the capability of Watson-Crick base-pairing is widespread among potentially natural nucleic acid alternatives taken from RNA’s close structural neighborhood. A comparison of RNA and such alternatives with regard to chemical properties that are fundamental to the biological function of RNA provides chemical facts that may contain clues to RNA’s origin.