Depsipeptide nucleic acids: prebiotic formation, oligomerization, and self-assembly of a new candidate proto-nucleic acid
N. V. Hud, D. M. Fialho, S. Karunakaran, K. W. Greeson, I. Martinez, G. B. Schuster, R. Krishnamurthy
This study introduces depsipeptide nucleic acid as a prebiotic candidate for the first informational polymer, showing its spontaneous formation and self-assembly under plausible early Earth conditions.
bioRxiv · Sep 1, 2020Biochemistry