Natural Arsenate DNA?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Natural Arsenate DNA?

AU - Nielsen, Peter E

PY - 2011/1/1

Y1 - 2011/1/1

N2 - The recent paper by Wolfe-Simon et al.1 reporting a bacterial strain, which is able to grow in high concentrations of arsenate, apparently in the absence of phosphate, and claims that in this strain arsenate is substituting for phosphate, e.g. in nucleic acids (Figure 1), was highly profiled, attracted broad attention, and almost immediately resulted in heavy scientific criticism (see e.g. 2-7).

AB - The recent paper by Wolfe-Simon et al.1 reporting a bacterial strain, which is able to grow in high concentrations of arsenate, apparently in the absence of phosphate, and claims that in this strain arsenate is substituting for phosphate, e.g. in nucleic acids (Figure 1), was highly profiled, attracted broad attention, and almost immediately resulted in heavy scientific criticism (see e.g. 2-7).

U2 - 10.4161/adna.2.1.15657

DO - 10.4161/adna.2.1.15657

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 21686246

SN - 1949-095X

VL - 2

SP - 4

EP - 5

JO - Artificial DNA

JF - Artificial DNA

IS - 1

ER -