Title |
One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation
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Published in |
Biology Direct, January 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1745-6150-4-4 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Andrei S Rodin, Eörs Szathmáry, Sergei N Rodin |
Abstract |
The genetic code is brought into action by 20 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. These enzymes are evenly divided into two classes (I and II) that recognize tRNAs from the minor and major groove sides of the acceptor stem, respectively. We have reported recently that: (1) ribozymic precursors of the synthetases seem to have used the same two sterically mirror modes of tRNA recognition, (2) having these two modes might have helped in preventing erroneous aminoacylation of ancestral tRNAs with complementary anticodons, yet (3) the risk of confusion for the presumably earliest pairs of complementarily encoded amino acids had little to do with anticodons. Accordingly, in this communication we focus on the acceptor stem. |
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