On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[email protected]>wrote: > > > [*] FWIW, I find it odd for you to ask, of this particular article, "why > is this important?" Of all the obscure, mumbo-jumbo journal articles > out there (our discussion of PoMo aside ;-), it seems blatantly obvious > to me that the substitution of As for P in DNA is important, even if we > don't know what the implications are. I am woefully ignorant of the > literature, though. Is it fairly common to find and report substitutes > for DNA components? > > No, it's not common, it's never been reported before, all DNA and RNA in life as we have known it up until today has been based on phospho-esters.
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