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ArticleNature2022

A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA-peptide world.

Felix Müller, Luis Escobar, Felix Xu, Ewa Węgrzyn, Milda Nainytė, Tynchtyk Amatov, Chun-Yin Chan, Alexander Pichler, Thomas Carell

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed
24.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 161 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. On the emergence of metabolism: the evolution of proteins that powered life.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Felix Müller *Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2712-8832
Luis Escobar *Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0392-8245
Felix XuDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9708-1825
Ewa WęgrzynDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8929-046X
Milda NainytėDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.
Tynchtyk AmatovDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.
Chun-Yin ChanDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1745-9742
Alexander PichlerDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9842-0155
Thomas CarellDepartment of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Munich, Germany. thomas.carell@lmu.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7898-2831
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DELMU Klinikum · DE

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The RNA world concept

Indexed as

Evolution, ChemicalOrigin of LifePeptidesRNAEarth, PlanetNucleosidesProteinsNucleosidesPeptidesProteinsRNA

Identifiers

PMID35546190
PMCPMC9095488
OpenAlexW4280592279

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