期刊
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
卷 58, 期 32, 页码 10812-10819出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902050
关键词
dimerization; polymerization; reaction mechanism; reactive intermediates; RNA structures
资金
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1607034] Funding Source: Medline
- Simons Foundation [290363] Funding Source: Medline
The emergence of the replication of RNA oligonucleotides was a critical step in the origin of life. An important model for the study of nonenzymatic template copying, which would be a key part of any such pathway, involves the reaction of ribonucleoside-5 '-phosphorimidazolides with an RNA primer/template complex. The mechanism by which the primer becomes extended by one nucleotide was assumed to be a classical in-line nucleophilic-substitution reaction in which the 3 '-hydroxyl of the primer attacks the phosphate of the incoming activated monomer with displacement of the imidazole leaving group. Surprisingly, this simple model has turned out to be incorrect, and the dominant pathway has now been shown to involve the reaction of two activated nucleotides with each other to form a 5 '-5 '-imidazolium bridged dinucleotide intermediate. Here we review the discovery of this unexpected intermediate, and the chemical, kinetic, and structural evidence for its role in template copying chemistry.
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