Was it an ancient gene codifying for a hairpin RNA that, by means of direct duplication, gave rise to the primitive tRNA molecule?
Author:
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Theoretical Biology
- Vol. 177 (1) , 95-101
Abstract
No abstract availableKeywords
This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
- The phylogeny of trnas seems to confirm the predictions of the coevolution theory of the origin of the genetic codeDiscover Life, 1995
- On the Origin of Protein Synthesis: A Speculative Model Based on Hairpin RNA StructuresJournal of Theoretical Biology, 1994
- On the origin of the transfer RNA moleculeJournal of Theoretical Biology, 1992
- The second genetic codeNature, 1988
- Cybernetic origins of replicationDiscover Life, 1988
- On the primacy of primordial RNABioSystems, 1987
- tRNA-rRNA sequence homologies: Evidence for an ancient modular format shared by tRNAs and rRNAsBioSystems, 1985
- Do genes-in-pieces imply proteins-in-pieces?Nature, 1978
- A speculation on the origin of protein synthesisDiscover Life, 1976
- Catalytic Role for RNA in DNA ReplicationNature New Biology, 1972