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R. Lohrmann
Researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Publications - 44
Citations - 2413
R. Lohrmann is an academic researcher from Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adenosine & Catalysis. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 44 publications receiving 2310 citations.
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Prebiotic chemistry and nucleic acid replication
Leslie E. Orgel,R. Lohrmann +1 more
TL;DR: The transition from the primitive atmosphere to the simplest replicating molecules is considered in four stages: the formation of a 'prebiotic soup' of organic precursors, including the purine and pyrimidine bases and the pentose sugars.
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Urea-Inorganic Phosphate Mixtures as Prebiotic Phosphorylating Agents
R. Lohrmann,Leslie E. Orgel +1 more
TL;DR: The addition of urea and ammonium chloride to the reaction mixture permits phosphorylation in high yield with neutral or basic phosphates at temperatures in the range of 65� to 100�C and it is believed that this procedure plausible model for prebiotic phosphorylated nucleosides.
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Preferential formation of (2'–5')-linked internucleotide bonds in non-enzymatic reactions
R. Lohrmann,Leslie E. Orgel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis of isomeric dinucleotides using ImpU with MepU, MepC, ImpA and MepG in aqueous solution yields mixtures of (2'−5') linked compound is 6-9 times more abundant than the (3' −5')-linked compound.
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Efficient metal-ion catalyzed template-directed oligonucleotide synthesis
TL;DR: The Pb2+ and Zn2+ ions are efficient catalysts for the polycytidylic acid-directed polymerization of an activated guanylic acid derivative, guanosine 5'-phosphorimidazolide, and the significance of these results in the context of the prebiotic evolution of RNA polymerase is discussed.
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Template-Directed Synthesis with Adenosine-5'-phosphorimidazolide
TL;DR: Adenosine-5'-monophosphorimidazolide reacts efficiently with adenosine derivatives on a polyuridylic acid template, with the formation of internucleotide bonds.