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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2018

A Fluorescent G-Quadruplex Sensor for Chemical RNA Copying.

Constantin Giurgiu, Tom H Wright, Derek K O'Flaherty, Jack W Szostak

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Structure-Activity Relationships in Nonenzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2021
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  4. Template-Directed Copying of RNA by Non-enzymatic Ligation.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Constantin GiurgiuDepartment of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0145-0110
Tom H WrightDepartment of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2231-8223
Derek K O'FlahertyDepartment of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3693-6380
Jack W SzostakDepartment of Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4131-1203

Funding

CIHRHoward Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-enzymatic RNA replication may have been one of the processes involved in the appearance of life on Earth. Attempts to recreate this process in a laboratory setting have not been successful thus far, highlighting a critical need for finding prebiotic conditions that increase the rate and the yield. Now a highly parallel assay for template directed RNA synthesis is presented that relies on the intrinsic fluorescence of a 2-aminopurine modified G-quadruplex. The application of the assay to examine the combined influence of multiple variables including pH, divalent metal concentrations and ribonucleotide concentrations on the copying of RNA sequences is demonstrated. The assay enables a direct survey of physical and chemical conditions, potentially prebiotic, which could enable the chemical replication of RNA.

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Base SequenceFluorescent DyesG-QuadruplexesRNASpectrometry, FluorescenceFluorescent DyesRNAgenetic copyingG-quadruplexesnucleotidesorigin of lifeRNA

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PMID29939457
PMCPMC6105513

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