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the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world
xxiii, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Prospects for understanding the origin of the RNA world / Gerald F. Joyce and Leslie E. Orgel -- Reading the palimpsest: contemporary biochemical data and the RNA world / Steven A. Benner ... [et al.] -- Speculations on the origin of ribosomal translocation / Robert Weiss and Joshua Cherry -- Probing RNA structure, function and history by comparative analysis / Carl R. Woese and Norman R. Pace -- Ribosomes and the RNA world / Peter B. Moore -- On the origin of the ribosome: coevolution of subdomains of tRNA and rRNA / Harry F. Noller -- Transfer RNA: an RNA for all seasons / Dieter Soll -- Antibiotics and the RNA world: a role for low-molecular-weight effectors in biochemical evolution? / Julian Davies, Uwe von Ahsen and Renee Schroeder -- RNA-amino acid affinity / Michael Yarus -- Similarities and differences between RNA and DNA recognition by proteins / Thomas A. Steitz -- Structure and mechanism of the large catalytic RNAs: group I and group II introns and ribonuclease P / Thomas R. Cech -- Divalent metal ions in RNA folding and catalysis / Tao Pan, David M. Long and Olke C. Uhlenbeck.
(cont) Splicing of precursors to mRNAs by the spliceosome / Melissa J. Moore, Charles C. Query and Phillip A. Sharp -- Diverse world of small ribonucleoproteins / Susan J. Baserga and Joan A. Steitz -- RNA editing: new uses for old players in the RNA world / Brenda L. Bass -- Evolution of functional structures of RNA / Jun-ichi Tomizawa -- Thermodynamic considerations for evolution by RNA / Douglas H. Turner and Philip C. Bevilacqua -- RNA structural elements and RNA function / Jacqueline R. Wyatt and Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. -- RNA: the shape of things to come / Larry Gold ... [et al.] -- In vitro selection of functional RNA sequences / Jack W. Szostak and Andrew D. Ellington -- Contemporary RNA genomes / John F. Atkins -- Telomerase / Elizabeth H. Blackburn -- Genomic tag hypothesis: modern viruses as molecular fossils of ancient strategies for genomic replication / Nancy Maizels and Alan M. Weiner -- Structures of base pairs involving at least two hydrogen bonds / Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. -- RNA pseudoknots / Cornelis W.A. Pleij -- Stereo pairs of RNA fragments / Ignacio Tinoco, Jr.
edited by Raymond F. Gesteland, John F. Atkins.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 24