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Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites

View ORCID ProfileYoshihiro Furukawa, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Naohiko Ohkouchi, View ORCID ProfileNanako O. Ogawa, Daniel P. Glavin, View ORCID ProfileJason P. Dworkin, Chiaki Abe, and Tomoki Nakamura
PNAS December 3, 2019 116 (49) 24440-24445; first published November 18, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907169116
Yoshihiro Furukawa
aDepartment of Earth Science, Tohoku University, 980-8578 Sendai, Japan;
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Yoshito Chikaraishi
bInstitute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0819 Sapporo, Japan;cBiogeochemistry Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 237-0061 Yokosuka, Japan;
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  1. Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved October 22, 2019 (received for review April 25, 2019)

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vol. 116 no. 49 24440-24445
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907169116
PubMed: 
31740594

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue December 3, 2019.
  • Published first November 18, 2019.

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Copyright © 2019 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

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  1. Yoshihiro Furukawaa,1,
  2. Yoshito Chikaraishib,c,
  3. Naohiko Ohkouchic,
  4. Nanako O. Ogawac,
  5. Daniel P. Glavind,
  6. Jason P. Dworkind,
  7. Chiaki Abea, and
  8. Tomoki Nakamuraa
  1. aDepartment of Earth Science, Tohoku University, 980-8578 Sendai, Japan;
  2. bInstitute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, 060-0819 Sapporo, Japan;
  3. cBiogeochemistry Program, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 237-0061 Yokosuka, Japan;
  4. dSolar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
  1. Edited by Mark H. Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and approved October 22, 2019 (received for review April 25, 2019)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: furukawa{at}tohoku.ac.jp.
  • Author contributions: Y.F. designed research; Y.F., Y.C., N.O.O., C.A., and T.N. performed research; Y.F., Y.C., N.O., N.O.O., D.P.G., and J.P.D. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; Y.F., Y.C., and N.O. analyzed data; and Y.F. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no competing interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1907169116/-/DCSupplemental.

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