The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life - Rilegato

 
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Early Thoughts on RNA and the Origin of Life The full impact of the essential role of the nucleic acids in biological systems was forcefully demonstrated by the research community in the 1950s.

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Foreword. Preface. 1. The Early Earth; Oliver Botta and Jeffrey L. Bada. 2. Reconstructing the Universal Tree of Life; James R. Brown. 3. The Nature of the Last Common Ancestor; Luis Delaye, Arturo Becerra and Antonio Lazcano. 4. Ribozyme-Catalyzed Genetics; Donald H. Burke. 5. The Scope of Selection; Michael Yarus and Rob D. Knight. 6. The Evolutionary History of the Translation Machinery; George E. Fox and Ashwinikumar K. Naik. 7. Functional Evolution of Ribosomes; Carlos Briones and Ricardo Amils. 8. Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases as Clues to Establishment of the Genetic Code; Lluís Ribas de Pouplana and Paul Schimmel. 9. The Relation Between Function, Structure and Evolution of Elongation Factors Tu; Mathias Sprinzl. 10. Origin and Evolution of DNA and DNA Replication Machineries; Patrick Forterre, Jonathan Filée and Hannu Myllykallio. 11. Early Evolution of DNA Repair Mechanisms; Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Frank T. Robb. 12. Extant Variations in the Genetic Code; Manuel A.S. Santos and Mick F. Tuite. 13. Adaptive Evolution of the Genetic Code; Rob D. Knight, Stephen J. Freeland and Laura F. Landweber. 14. Expanding the Genetic Code in Vitro and in Vivo; Thomas J. Magliery and David R. Liu. Index.

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9781441934130: The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life

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ISBN 10:  1441934138 ISBN 13:  9781441934130
Casa editrice: Springer US, 2010
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