Rodriguez L, Orgel L E
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA 92122.
J Mol Evol. 1991 Feb;32(2):101-4. doi: 10.1007/BF02515382.
When an oligonucleotide primer pG10 is incubated with the nucleotide analogue 9-[3-hydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)prop-1-yl] guanine diphosphate (pGp, I) in the presence of poly(C), addition of the monomer occurs almost exclusively at the 5'-terminal phosphate rather than the 3'-terminal cis-glycol. The implications of this finding in the context of prebiotic condensation reactions are discussed.