Ultraviolet-Driven Repair Mechanisms in Nucleic Acids: Environmental Controls on Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Evolution
Sarah Crucilla1, Jia Zeng2, Dian Ding3, Yanfeng Xing4, Ajitesh Nanda2, John Sutherland5, Jack W Szostak4, Dimitar D. Sasselov6 and Corinna Kufner7, (1)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Boston, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, Chicago, United States, (5)MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (6)Harvard University, Astronomy, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technologies, Jena, Germany