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Thermodynamic and Kinetic Sequence Selection in Enzyme-Free Polymer Self-Assembly inside a Non-equilibrium RNA Reactor

by Tobias Göppel, Joachim H. Rosenberger, Bernhard Altaner and Ulrich Gerland *
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Submission received: 15 March 2022 / Revised: 3 April 2022 / Accepted: 6 April 2022 / Published: 10 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organic Chemical Evolution regarding the Origin(s) of Life)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

My comments are given in the attached file

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Reviewer 2 Report

Tobias et al. has studied the self-assembly of RNAs via templated ligation inside a non-equilibrium RNA reactor. They have looked the thermodynamic and kinetic sequence selection by modelling the reactor. I recommend to publish this work in Life. 

Questions and comments:

  1. in line 47, the authors talking about from pre-RNA world to RNA world. It is a bit confused me about the author's definition of pre-RNA world. It looks not like the XNA world in this paper. Can authors rephrase this word to make it more clear?
  2. in line 58-59, The most contribution of RNA/DNA stability should be the hydrogen bond of base pairs not the base stacking. Ref 35 is not a good ref for authors' argument.
  3. The hydrolysis of RNA giving 2'3'-cycle phosphate, but the ligation in this paper more likely to talking about the 5'-phosphate ligation (like 2-aminoimidazolide phosphate in Jack's work). Thus, the formation and the hydrolysis of RNA is not an equilibrium. It is two irreversible reactions. The authors should clarify it in line 121.

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