Ligation activity of fragmented ribozymes in frozen solution: implications for the RNA world.

Abstract:

:A vexing difficulty of the RNA world hypothesis is how RNA molecules of significant complexity could ever have evolved given their susceptibility to degradation. One way degradation might have been reduced is through low temperature. Here we report that truncated and fragmented derivatives of the hairpin ribozyme can catalyze ligation of a wide variety of RNA molecules to a given sequence in frozen solution despite having little or no activity under standard solution conditions. These results suggest that complex RNAs could have evolved in freezing environments on the early earth and perhaps elsewhere.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Vlassov AV,Johnston BH,Landweber LF,Kazakov SA

doi

10.1093/nar/gkh601

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-05-25 00:00:00

pages

2966-74

issue

9

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

32/9/2966

journal_volume

32

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