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

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, [2006]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : the history, chemistry, and geobiology behind RNA
  • Progress toward understanding the origin of the RNA world
  • Protocells : genetic polymers inside membrane vesicles
  • Riboswitches and the RNA world
  • Catalytic strategies of self-cleaving ribozymes : relics of an RNA world?
  • How the group I intron works : a case study of RNA structure and function
  • RNA, lipids, and membranes
  • Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases: from the RNA world to the theater of proteins
  • The roles of RNA in the synthesis of protein
  • Evolution of ribosomes and translation from and RNA world
  • The RNP world
  • The ever-growing world of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
  • Spliceosome structure and function
  • Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing as a paradigm for site-specific modifications of RNA molecules
  • Telomerase RNA
  • The shapely mRNA: knotting ventured, knotting gained
  • Group II introns : ribozymes that splice RNA and invade DNA
  • SINEs and LINEs : troublemakers, saboteurs, benefactors, ancestors
  • The biology of short RNAs
  • Versatile roles of small RNA regulators in bacteria
  • Large noncoding RNAs in mammalian gene dosage regulation
  • Predicting RNA secondary structure
  • A modular and hierarchical approach for all-atom RNA modeling
  • Automated in vitro selection and microarray applications for functional RNA sequences
  • RNA folding, unfolding, and dynamics, one molecule at a time