Evidence of Liquid Crystal–Assisted Abiotic Ligation of Nucleic Acids

Abiotic ligation of DNA oligomers templated by their liquid crystal ordering

(2015) Tommaso P. Fraccia et al.   Nature Communications

Dry Polymerization of 3′,5′-Cyclic GMP to Long Strands of RNA

(2014) Matthias Morasch et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Ester Formation and Hydrolysis during Wet–Dry Cycles: Generation of Far-from-Equilibrium Polymers in a Model Prebiotic Reaction

(2014) Irena Mamajanov et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Rapid RNA Exchange in Aqueous Two-Phase System and Coacervate Droplets

(2014) Tony Z. Jia et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Efficient Self-Assembly in Water of Long Noncovalent Polymers by Nucleobase Analogues

(2013) Brian J. Cafferty et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity

(2013) James Attwater et al.   Nature Chemistry

Escalation of polymerization in a thermal gradient

(2013) C. B. Mast et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) Steven A. Benner et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enhanced Nonenzymatic Ligation of Homopurine Miniduplexes: Support for Greater Base Stacking in a Pre-RNA World

(2012) Elizabeth Kuruvilla et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Structure, Stiffness and Substates of the Dickerson-Drew Dodecamer

(2012) Tomáš Dršata et al.   Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

End-to-end attraction of duplex DNA

(2012) Christopher Maffeo et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers

(2012) T. Bellini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-Assembly of Bifunctional Patchy Particles with Anisotropic Shape into Polymers Chains: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments

(2011) Cristiano De Michele et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Expanding Roles for Diverse Physical Phenomena During the Origin of Life

(2010) Itay Budin et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Linear aggregation and liquid-crystalline order: comparison of Monte Carlo simulation and analytic theory

(2010) Tatiana Kuriabova et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Thermal Trap for DNA Replication

(2010) Christof B. Mast et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Right-handed double-helix ultrashort DNA yields chiral nematic phases with both right- and left-handed director twist

(2010) Giuliano Zanchetta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intercalation as a means to suppress cyclization and promote polymerization of base-pairing oligonucleotides in a prebiotic world

(2010) E. D. Horowitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generation of Long RNA Chains in Water

(2009) Giovanna Costanzo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A natural ribozyme with 3′,5′ RNA ligase activity

(2009) Quentin Vicens et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

How can a chemical system act purposefully? Bridging between life and non-life

(2008) Addy Pross   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Liquid crystal ordering of DNA and RNA oligomers with partially overlapping sequences

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Physical Polymerization and Liquid Crystallization of RNA Oligomers

(2008) Giuliano Zanchetta et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Phase separation and liquid crystallization of complementary sequences in mixtures of nanoDNA oligomers

(2008) G. Zanchetta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA