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Editorial: The non-coding RNA world in animals and plants [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics
Lingling Wang   +4 more
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Chaperna: linking the ancient RNA and protein worlds

open access: yesRNA Biology, 2021
As a mental framework for the transition of self-replicating biological forms, the RNA world concept stipulates a dual function of RNAs as genetic substance and catalyst.
Ahyun Son, Scott Horowitz, Baik L. Seong
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A Polyaddition Model for the Prebiotic Polymerization of RNA and RNA-Like Polymers

open access: yesLife, 2020
Implicit in the RNA world hypothesis is that prebiotic RNA synthesis, despite occurring in an environment without biochemical catalysts, produced the long RNA polymers which are essential to the formation of life.
Alex Spaeth, Mason Hargrave
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An RNA World

open access: yesAnnual Review of Plant Biology, 2023
My research career started with an ambition to work out how genes are regulated in plants. I tried out various experimental systems—artichoke tissue culture in Edinburgh; soybean root nodules in Montreal; soybean hypocotyls in Athens, Georgia; and cereal aleurones in Cambridge—but eventually I discovered plant viruses.
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Towards an RNA/Peptides World by the Direct RNA Template Mechanism: The Emergence of Membrane-Stabilizing Peptides in RNA-Based Protocells

open access: yesLife, 2023
How functional peptides may have arisen is a significant problem for the scenario of the RNA world. An attractive idea, the direct RNA template (DRT) hypothesis, proposes that RNA molecules can bind amino acids specifically and promote the synthesis of ...
Yu Shi, Chunwu Yu, Wentao Ma
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The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the early 'RNA world' stage of life, RNA stored genetic information and catalyzed chemical reactions. However, the RNA world eventually gave rise to the DNA-RNA-protein world, and this transition included the 'genetic takeover' of information storage ...
Chen, Irene A   +4 more
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Lipid-Assisted Polymerization of Nucleotides

open access: yesLife, 2019
In addition to being one of the proponents of the “Lipid World hypothesis”, David Deamer, together with other colleagues, pioneered studies involving formation of RNA-like oligomers from their ‘non-activated’, prebiotically ...
Felix Olasagasti, Sudha Rajamani
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Force for ancient and recent life: viral and stem-loop RNA consortia promote life. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Lytic viruses were thought to kill the most numerous host (i.e., kill the winner). But persisting viruses/defectives can also protect against viruses, especially in a ubiquitous virosphere. In 1991, Yarmolinsky et al.
Villarreal, Luis P
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The small RNA world [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Cell Science, 2003
Small RNAs have burst on the scene as ubiquitous, versatile repressors of gene expression in plants, animals and many fungi. These tiny RNAs (∼21-26 nt), which induce silencing through homologous sequence interactions, come in many guises: short interfering (si) RNAs ([Elbashir et al., 2001][1]),
E Jean, Finnegan, Marjori A, Matzke
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