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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2021

Structure-Activity Relationships in Nonenzymatic Template-Directed RNA Synthesis.

Constantin Giurgiu, Ziyuan Fang, Harry R M Aitken, Seohyun Chris Kim, Lydia Pazienza, Shriyaa Mittal, Jack W Szostak

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Constantin GiurgiuHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0145-0110
Ziyuan FangHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Harry R M AitkenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Seohyun Chris KimHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Lydia PazienzaHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Shriyaa MittalHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Jack W SzostakHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4131-1203

Funding

User Training & OutreachP30GM138396 · NIGMS · UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC · PI JANET L. SMITH · 2020 to 2026
$34.3M
High-Speed High-Sensitivity Detector for X-ray Micro-Crystallography at GM/CA@APSS10OD012289 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI FISCHETTI, ROBERT F. · 2014 to 2014
$2.0M
Pilatus 6mS10OD021832 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI ADAMS, PAUL DAVID · 2016 to 2016
$980k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM138396NIH HHS S10 OD012289NIH HHS S10 OD021832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The template-directed synthesis of RNA played an important role in the transition from prebiotic chemistry to the beginnings of RNA based life, but the mechanism of RNA copying chemistry is incompletely understood. We measured the kinetics of template copying with a set of primers with modified 3'-nucleotides and determined the crystal structures of these modified nucleotides in the context of a primer/template/substrate-analog complex. pH-rate profiles and solvent isotope effects show that deprotonation of the primer 3'-hydroxyl occurs prior to the rate limiting step, the attack of the alkoxide on the activated phosphate of the incoming nucleotide. The analogs with a

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ArabinoseCrystallography, X-RayDeuterium OxideDNA PrimersImidazolesKineticsNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotidesRNAStructure-Activity RelationshipTemplates, GeneticWaterArabinoseDeuterium OxideDNA PrimersImidazolesNucleotidesRNAWaterorigins of lifeprebiotic chemistryribonucleosidesRNA replicationX-ray crystallography

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PMCPMC8490286

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