O'Flaherty DK, Zhou L, Szostak JW Nonenzymatic RNA-templated Synthesis of N3'→P5' Phosphoramidate DNA. Bio Protoc. 2020;10(17):e3734 - PMID: 33659395 - PMCID: PMC7842504 - DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3734

Strom KR, Szostak JW Solid-Phase Synthesis of Sequence-Defined Informational Oligomers. J Org Chem. 2020;85(21):13929-13938 - PMID: 33064001 - PMCID: PMC9594334 - DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01977

Zhou L, O'Flaherty DK, Szostak JW Assembly of a ribozyme ligase from short oligomers by nonenzymatic ligation. J Am Chem Soc. 2020;142(37):15961-15965 - PMID: 32820909 - PMCID: PMC9594310 - DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c06722

Zhang SJ, Duzdevich D, Szostak JW Potentially Prebiotic Activation Chemistry Compatible with Nonenzymatic RNA Copying. J Am Chem Soc. 2020;142(35):14810-14813 - PMID: 32794700 - PMCID: PMC9594304 - DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c05300

Kindt JT, Szostak JW, Wang A Bulk Self-Assembly of Giant, Unilamellar Vesicles. ACS Nano. 2020;14(11):14627-14634 - PMID: 32602696 - PMCID: PMC8172239 - DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03125

Todd ZR, Fahrenbach AC, Ranjan S, Magnani CJ, Szostak JW, Sasselov DD Ultraviolet-Driven Deamination of Cytidine Ribonucleotides Under Planetary Conditions. Astrobiology. 2020;20(7):878-888 - PMID: 32267736 - PMCID: PMC9634989 - DOI: 10.1089/ast.2019.2182

Zhou L, O'Flaherty DK, Szostak JW Template-directed copying of RNA by non-enzymatic ligation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020;59(36):15682-15687 - PMID: 32558121 - PMCID: PMC7496532 - DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004934

Duzdevich D, Carr CE, Szostak JW Deep sequencing of non-enzymatic RNA primer extension. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020;48(12):e70 - PMID: 32427335 - PMCID: PMC7337528 - DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa400

Lelyveld VS, Zhang W, Szostak JW Synthesis of phosphoramidate-linked DNA by a modified DNA polymerase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(13):7276-7283 - PMID: 32188786 - PMCID: PMC7132125 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922400117

Walton T, DasGupta S, Duzdevich D, Oh SS, Szostak JW In vitro selection of ribozyme ligases that use prebiotically plausible 2-aminoimidazole-activated substrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(11):5741-5748 - PMID: 32123094 - PMCID: PMC7084097 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914367117

Kim SC, Zhou L, Zhang W, O'Flaherty DK, Rondo-Brovetto V, Szostak JW A model for the emergence of RNA from a prebiotically plausible mixture of ribonucleotides, arabinonucleotides and 2'-deoxynucleotides. J Am Chem Soc. 2020;142(5):2317-2326 - PMID: 31913615 - PMCID: PMC7577264 - DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11239