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the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA
xxv, 709 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Before RNA and after : geophysical and geochemical constraints on molecular evolution / Stephen J. Mojzsis, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, and Gustaf Arrhenius -- Prospects for understanding the origin of the RNA world / Gerald F. Joyce and Leslie E. Orgel -- The genomic tag hypothesis : what molecular fossils tell us about the evolution of tRNA / Nancy Maizels and Alan M. Weiner -- Probing RNA structure, function, and history by comparative analysis / Norman R. Pace, Brian C. Thomas, and Carl R. Woese -- Re-creating an RNA replicase / David P. Bartel -- Did the RNA world exploit an expanded genetic alphabet? / Steven A. Benner ... [et al.] -- Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and self-acylating ribozymes / Michael Yarus and Mali Illangasekare -- On the origin of the ribosome : coevolution of subdomains of tRNA and rRNA / Harry F. Noller -- Introns and the RNA world / Walter Gilbert and Sandro J. de Souza -- The interactions that shape RNA structure / Mark E. Burkard, Douglas H. Turner, and Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. - Small ribozymes / David B. McKay and Joseph E. Wedekind - The role of metal ions in RNA biochemistry / Andrew L. Feig and Olke C. Uhlenbeck - Building a catalytic active site using only RNA / Thomas R. Cech and Barbara L. Golden -- Ribonuclease P / Sidney Altman and Leif Kirsebom -- The RNA folding problem / Peter B. Moore -- RNA interaction with small ligands and peptides / Joseph D. Puglisi and James R. Williamson -- RNA recognition by proteins / Thomas A. Steitz -- Group I and group II ribozymes as RNPs : clues to the past and guides to the future / Alan M. Lambowitz ... [et al.] -- The growing world of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins / Yo-Tao Yu ... [et al.] -- Splicing of precursors to mRNAs by the spliceosomes / Christopher B. Burge, Thomas Tuschl, and Philip A. Sharp -- tRNA splicing : an RNA world add-on or an ancient reaction? / Christopher R. Trotta and John Abelson -- RNA editing : an evolutionary perspective / Larry Simpson -- Telomerase / Elizabeth H. Blackburn - Dynamics of the genetic code / John F. Atkins ... [et al.] - Structures of base pairs involving at least two hydrogen bonds ; Schematic diagrams of secondary and tertiary structure elements / Mark E. Burkard, Douglas H. Turner, and Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. -- Reactions catalyzed by RNA and DNA enzymes / Gerald F. Joyce -- Visualization of elongation factor tu on the 70S E. coli ribosome / Holger Stark ... [et al.] -- The large ribosomal subunit from H. at 9 Å marismortui resolution / Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, and Thomas A. Steitz.
edited by Raymond F. Gesteland, Thomas R. Cech, John F. Atkins.
Includes bibliographical references and index.