Deoxyribose and deoxysugar derivatives from photoprocessed astrophysical ice analogues and comparison to meteorites

Sugars are known to form from the UV photoprocessing of ices under astrophysical conditions. Here, the authors report the detection of deoxyribose, the sugar of DNA, and other deoxysugars from the UV photoprocessing of H2O:CH3OH ice mixtures, which are compared with materials from carbonaceous meteo...

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Main Authors: Michel Nuevo, George Cooper, Scott A. Sandford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07693-x