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. 2022 Nov 3;5:143. doi: 10.1038/s42004-022-00761-w

Fig. 4. Peptide formation starting from Ser and reaction of nucleoside mixture.

Fig. 4

a Proposed mechanism for phosphate mediated peptide formation starting from Ser based on the mechanism for trimetaphosphate mediated amino acid coupling suggested by Rabinowitz et al. (black: m/z value found; red: m/z value not detected; oxidation: ox.)80. b Products of the reaction starting from a mixture containing all canonical nucleosides (each 25 mM, in total 1.0 eq.) with H3PO3 (3.0 eq.) and urea (1.0 eq.) after 7 d. The reaction mixture was analyzed by CE-MS (blue: detected, grey: not detected, hatched: several nucleoside combinations with identical m/z values are possible and consequently the signal could not be assigned unambiguously to one nucleoside pair).