2,6-diaminopurine promotes repair of DNA lesions under prebiotic conditions

UV-induced photodamage that likely occurred during the prebiotic synthesis of DNA and RNA is still an untackled issue for their origin on early Earth. Here, the authors show that substitution of 2,6-diaminopurine for adenine enables repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers with high yields, and demon...

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Main Authors: Rafał Szabla, Magdalena Zdrowowicz, Paulina Spisz, Nicholas J. Green, Petr Stadlbauer, Holger Kruse, Jiří Šponer, Janusz Rak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23300-y