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The scenario on the origin of translation in the RNA world: in principle of replication parsimony

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Title
The scenario on the origin of translation in the RNA world: in principle of replication parsimony
Published in
Biology Direct, November 2010
DOI 10.1186/1745-6150-5-65
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Wentao Ma

Abstract

It is now believed that in the origin of life, proteins should have been "invented" in an RNA world. However, due to the complexity of a possible RNA-based proto-translation system, this evolving process seems quite complicated and the associated scenario remains very blurry. Considering that RNA can bind amino acids with specificity, it has been reasonably supposed that initial peptides might have been synthesized on "RNA templates" containing multiple amino acid binding sites. This "Direct RNA Template (DRT)" mechanism is attractive because it should be the simplest mechanism for RNA to synthesize peptides, thus very likely to have been adopted initially in the RNA world. Then, how this mechanism could develop into a proto-translation system mechanism is an interesting problem.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
France 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Argentina 1 2%
China 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Poland 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 57 86%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 29%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Student > Master 7 11%
Professor 4 6%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 11 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 33 50%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 12%
Physics and Astronomy 3 5%
Chemistry 3 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 11 17%
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