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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2018

Catalysis of Template-Directed Nonenzymatic RNA Copying by Iron(II).

Lin Jin, Aaron E Engelhart, Weicheng Zhang, Katarzyna Adamala, Jack W Szostak

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Growth, replication and division enable evolution of coacervate protocells.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2022
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  15. Prebiotic amino acids bind to and stabilize prebiotic fatty acid membranes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lin JinHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3646-8903
Aaron E EngelhartDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1849-7700
Weicheng ZhangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.
Katarzyna AdamalaDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development , University of Minnesota , Minneapolis , Minnesota 55455 , United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1066-7207
Jack W SzostakHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4131-1203

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of nonenzymatic template-directed RNA copying is the experimental basis for the search for chemistry and reaction conditions consistent with prebiotic RNA replication. The most effective model systems for RNA copying have to date required a high concentration of Mg

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CatalysisFerrous CompoundsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMolecular StructureRNAFerrous CompoundsRNA

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PMID30335371
PMCPMC7547886

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