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List of works by Lijun Zhou

A Model for the Emergence of RNA from a Prebiotically Plausible Mixture of Ribonucleotides, Arabinonucleotides, and 2'-Deoxynucleotides

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Crystal structures of the Lsm complex bound to the 3' end sequence of U6 small nuclear RNA

scientific article

DNA polymerase activity on synthetic N3'→P5' phosphoramidate DNA templates

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Heterodimerization of UNC-13/RIM regulates synaptic vesicle release probability but not priming in

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Inosine, but none of the 8-oxo-purines, is a plausible component of a primordial version of RNA

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Kinetic explanations for the sequence biases observed in the nonenzymatic copying of RNA templates

scientific article published on 01 January 2022

Mechanism of substrate recognition and transport by an amino acid antiporter

scientific article

Natural soda lakes provide compatible conditions for RNA and membrane function that could have enabled the origin of life

scientific article published in March 2024

Non-enzymatic primer extension with strand displacement

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Nonenzymatic Template-Directed Synthesis of Mixed-Sequence 3'-NP-DNA up to 25 Nucleotides Long Inside Model Protocells

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Prebiotically Plausible "Patching" of RNA Backbone Cleavage through a 3'-5' Pyrophosphate Linkage

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Structural Rationale for the Enhanced Catalysis of Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension by a Downstream Oligonucleotide.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Synthesis of a Nonhydrolyzable Nucleotide Phosphoroimidazolide Analogue That Catalyzes Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension.

scientific article

The Virtual Circular Genome Model for Primordial RNA Replication

scientific article published on 07 October 2020