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Nucleobase Formation

Nucleobase Formation is a chemical process in prebiotic chemistry that generates the nitrogenous bases essential for nucleic acid synthesis through abiotic pathways under early Earth conditions.

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Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases

Michael P. Callahan, Karen E. Smith, Henderson James Cleaves et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 578 citations · Full text

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Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite

Zita Martins, Oliver Botta, Marilyn L. Fogel et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2008 · 388 citations · Full text

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The box H+ACA snoRNAs carry Cbf5p, the putative rRNA pseudouridine synthase

Denis L. J. Lafontaine, Cécile Bousquet‐Antonelli, Yves Henry et al. · Genes & Development · 1998 · 341 citations · Full text

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Synthesis of Peptide Nucleic Acid Monomers Containing the Four Natural Nucleobases: Thymine, Cytosine, Adenine, and Guanine and Their Oligomerization

Kim L. Dueholm, Carsten Behrens, Leif Christensen et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1994 · 303 citations

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Asphalt, Water, and the Prebiotic Synthesis of Ribose, Ribonucleosides, and RNA

Steven A. Benner, Hyo‐Joong Kim, Matthew A. Carrigan · Accounts of Chemical Research · 2012 · 280 citations

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Authors

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  1. RS
    Raffaele Saladino

    Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy

    10 publications · 907 citations

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  2. ED
    Ernesto Di Mauro

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

    10 publications · 904 citations

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  3. BL
    Bernhard Lippert

    TU Dortmund University, Germany

    9 publications · 335 citations

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  4. NV
    Nicholas V. Hud

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    8 publications · 343 citations

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  5. JE
    Judit E. Šponer

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Czechia

    9 publications · 516 citations

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Institutions

318

  1. Università degli Studi della Tuscia

    Viterbo, Italy

    11 h-index

    32 publications

    2.8K citations

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    9 h-index

    34 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    35 publications

    2.9K citations

  4. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics

    Brno, Czechia

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    873 citations

  5. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Munich, Germany

    7 h-index

    30 publications

    2.6K citations

  6. Ames Research Center

    Mountain View, United States

    7 h-index

    15 publications

    859 citations

  7. Czech Academy of Sciences

    Prague, Czechia

    7 h-index

    24 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. University of Rome Tor Vergata

    Rome, Italy

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    461 citations

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  1. Journal of Biological Chemistry

    JBC · 11 publications · 666 citations

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  2. Astrobiology

    11 publications · 444 citations

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  3. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 12 publications · 818 citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 8 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. Nature

    7 publications · 511 citations

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