From the RNA world to the RNA/protein world: Contribution of some riboswitch-binding species?

Some amino acids and their formal derivatives, currently riboswitch-binding species, could have interacted with polyribonucletides in prebiotic environments, leading to the peptide formation. If the resulting compounds had led to a sustainable polymerization of amino acids and the new structures had...

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Published inJournal of theoretical biology Vol. 370; pp. 197 - 201
Main Author da Silva, José A.L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 07.04.2015
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Amino Acids - metabolism
Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases - metabolism
Early aminoacylation
l-lysine
Ligands
Origin of life
Peptides - metabolism
Proteins - metabolism
Ribonucleosyl peptides
Riboswitch
RNA - metabolism
S-adenosyl-L-methionine
Early aminoacylation
l-lysine
Origin of life
S-adenosyl-L-methionine
Ribonucleosyl peptides
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Summary:Some amino acids and their formal derivatives, currently riboswitch-binding species, could have interacted with polyribonucletides in prebiotic environments, leading to the peptide formation. If the resulting compounds had led to a sustainable polymerization of amino acids and the new structures had catalytic activity, such would have been an important contribution to the transition from the RNA world to the RNA/Protein world. •Primordial peptide formation promoted by polyribonucleotides•Interactions between polyribonucleotides with amino acids•Riboswitch-binding species as relics of prebiological period
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ISSN:0022-5193
1095-8541
DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.12.013