Montmorillonite, oligonucleotides, RNA and origin of life
Montmorillonite, oligonucleotides, RNA and origin of life
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DOI:
10.1023/b:orig.0000043130.49790.a7
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发表时间:
2004-12-01
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2
通讯作者:
Ertem, G
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作者:
Ertem, G
Na-montmorillonite prepared from Volclay by the titration method facilitates the self-condensation of ImpA, the 5'-phosphorimidazolide derivative of adenosine. As was shown by AE-HPLC analysis and selective enzymatic hydrolysis of products, oligo(A)s formed in this reaction are 10 monomer units long and contain 67% 3',5'-phosphodiester bonds (Ferris and Ertem, 1992a). Under the same reaction conditions, 5'-phosphorimidazolide derivatives of cytidine, uridine and guanosine also undergo self-condensation producing oligomers containing up to 12-14 monomer units for oligo(C) s to 6 monomer units for oligo(G) s. In oligo(C) s and oligo(U) s, 75-80% of the monomers are linked by 2',5'-phosphodiester bonds. Hexamer and higher oligomers isolated from synthetic oligo(C) s formed by montmorillonite catalysis, which contain both 3',5'- and 2',5'- linkages, serve as catalysts for the non-enzymatic template directed synthesis of oligo(G) s from activated monomer 2-MeImpG, guanosine 5'-phospho-2-methylimidazolide (Ertem and Ferris, 1996). Pentamer and higher oligomers containing exclusively 2',5'-linkages, which were isolated from the synthetic oligo(C) s, also serve as templates and produce oligo(G) s with both 2',5'- and 3',5'-phosphodiester bonds. Kinetic studies on montmorillonite catalyzed elongation rates of oligomers using the computer program SIMFIT demonstrated that the rate constants for the formation of oligo(A) s increased in the order of 2-mer