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The RNA world : the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gesteland, Raymond F., Cech, Thomas, Atkins, John F. (John Fuller)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [1999]
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Cold Spring Harbor monograph series. 37.
Subjects:
RNA > Evolution.
Evolutionary genetics.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.