A synthetic molecular system capable of mirror-image genetic replication and transcription
A synthetic molecular system capable of mirror-image genetic replication and transcription
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Wang, Zimou , Xu, Weiliang , Liu, Lei and Zhu, Ting F.
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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English
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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The overwhelmingly homochiral nature of life has left a puzzle as to whether mirror-image biological systems based on a chirally inverted version of molecular machinery could also have existed. Here we report that two key steps in the central dogma of molecular biology, the template-directed polymerization of DNA and transcription into RNA, can be...
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A synthetic molecular system capable of mirror-image genetic replication and transcription
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1808635278
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1808635278
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1755-4330
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1755-4349
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10.1038/nchem.2517
