The biochemical roots of the RNA world: From zymonucleic acid to ribozymes

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 407-423

  Lazcano, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Catalytic RNA; Coenzymes; Early biological catalysis; Origin of life; RNA world

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOZYME; RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOGENESIS; COENZYME; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; COENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 84870824666     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. Allen G., 1970, "Natural selection and the origin of life," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 14: 109-126.
2. Bawden F.C., Pirie N.W., Bernal J.D., and Frankuchen I., 1936, "Liquid crystalline substances from virus-infected plants," Nature, 138: 1051-1052.
3. Becerra A., Delaye L., Islas A. and Lazcano A., 2007, "Very early stages of biological evolution related to the nature of the last common ancestor of the three major cell domains," Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 38: 361-379.
4. Belozerskii A.N., 1959, "On species specificity of nucleic acids in bacteria," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 322-331.
5. Brachet J., 1959, "Les acides nucléiques et l'origine des proteins," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 361-367.
6. Crick F.H.C., 1966, "The genetic code-yesterday, today and tomorrow," Cold Spring Harbor Symposium Quantitative Biology, 31: 1-9.
7. Crick F.H.C., 1968, "The origin of the genetic code," Journal of Molecular Biology, 39: 367-379.
8. D'Hérelle F., 1926, The Bacteriophage and its Behaviour, Baltimore: William and Wilkins.
9. Darnell J., 2011, RNA: Life's indispensable molecule, Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Press.
10. Deamer D.W., 2011, First life: discovering the connections between stars, cells and how life began, Berkeley: University of California Press.
11. Eakin R.E., 1962, "An approach to the evolution of metabolism," Science, 138: 983.
12. Eakin R.E., 1963, "An approach to the evolution of metabolism," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 49: 360-366.
13. Ettienne-Decant J., 1988, Genetic Biochemistry: from gene to protein, Chichester: Ellis Horwood Ltd.
14. Fraenkel-Conrat H., Singer B. and Williams R.C., 1957, "Infectivity of viral nucleic acid," Biochemica et Biophysica Acta, 25: 87-96.
15. Fraenkel-Conrat H. and Singer B., 1959, "The infective nucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 303-306.
16. Fry I., 2006, "The origins of research into the origins of life," Endeavour, 30: 24-28.
17. Gierer A. and Schramm G., 1956, "Infectivity of ribonucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus," Nature, 177: 702-703.
18. Gilbert W., 1986, "The RNA World," Nature, 319: 618.
19. Handler P., 1963, "Evolution of the coenzymes," in: Oparin A.I. (ed), Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Biochemistry, Vol. III. Biochemistry, New York: Pergamon Press/Macmillan Company, 149-157.
20. Hartman H., 1975, "Speculations on the origin and evolution of metabolism," Journal of Molecular Evolution, 4: 359-370.
21. Haldane J.B.S., 1954, "The origins of life," New Biology, 16: 12-27.
22. Haldane J.B.S., 1965, "Data needed for a blueprint of the first organism," in: Fox S.W., The origins of prebiological systems and their molecular matrices, New York: Academic Press, 11-15.
23. Kumar R.K. and Yarus M., 2001, "RNA-catalyzed amino acid activation," Biochemie, 40: 6998-7004.
24. Lazcano A., 2010, "Which way to life?," Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 40: 161-167.
25. Lazcano A., 2012, "Planetary change and biochemical adaptation: molecular evolution of corrinoid and heme biosynthesis," Hematology, 17 Suppl. 1: 7-10.
26. Lazcano A., Guerrero R., Margulis L. and Oró J., 1988, "The evolutionary transition from RNA to DNA in early cells," Journal of Molecular Evolution, 27: 283-290.
27. Lehman I.R., Zimmerman S.B., Adler J., Bessman M.J., Simms E.S. and Kornberg A., 1958, "Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleotic acid. V. Chemical composition of enzymatically synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 44: 1191-1196.
28. Miescher F., 1871, "Über die chemische Zusammensetzung des Eiters," Medizinischchemische Untersuchungen, 4: 441-460.
29. Miller S.L., 1953, "A production of amino acids under possible primitive Earth conditions," Science, 117: 528.
30. Mirsky A.E., 1959, "A note on the evolution of nucleic acids," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 358-360.
31. Muller H.J., 1960, "Panel One: The origin of life," in: Tax S. and Callender C. (eds), Evolution after Darwin: The University of Chicago Centennial Discussions, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 3: 69-105.
32. Oparin A.I., 1938, The Origin of Life, New York: MacMillan.
33. Oparin A.I., 1968, Genesis and evolutionary development of life, New York: Academic Press.
34. Oró J., 1960, "Synthesis of adenine from ammonium cyanide," Biochemica l and Biophysical Research Communications, 2: 407.
35. Orgel L.E., 1968, "Evolution of the genetic apparatus," Journal of Molecular Biology, 38: 381-393.
36. Orgel L.E. and Crick F.H.C., 1993, "Anticipating an RNA world. Some past speculations on the origin of life: where are they today," FASEB Journal, 7: 238-239.
37. Orgel L.E. and Sulston J.E., 1971, "Polynucleotide replication and the origin of life," in: Kimball A.P. and Oró J. (eds), Prebiotic and biochemical evolution, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 89-94.
38. Pirie N.H., 1959, "Discussion on the origin of proteins, nucleoproteins, and enzymes," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 370-371.
39. Rich A., 1962, "On the problems of evolution and biochemical information transfer," in: Kasha M. and Pullman B. (eds), Horizons in Biochemistry, New York: Academic Press, 103-126.
40. Rich A., 2004, "The excitement of discovery," Annual Review of Biochemistry, 73: 1-37.
41. Smith E.L. and Hill R.L., 1985, "Philip Handler 1917-1985," Washington DC: Biographic Memoir, National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 303-353.
42. Stanley W.M., 1935, "Isolation of a crystalline protein possessing the properties of tobacco-mosaic virus," Science, 81: 644-645.
43. Stanley W.M., 1959, "On the nature of viruses, genes and life," in: Oparin A.I., Pasynskii A.G., Braunshetin A.E. and Pavloskaya T.E. (eds), The Origin of Life on Earth, New York: Pergamon Press/MacMillan Company, 313-321.
44. Stent G.S., 1968, "That was the molecular biology that was," Science, 160: 390-395.
45. Summers W.C., 1999, Felix d'Hérelle and the origins of molecular biology, New Haven: Yale University Press.
46. Szostak J.W., Bartel D P., and Luisi P.L., 2001, "Synthesizing life," Nature, 409: 387-390.
47. Thomas R., 1992, "Molecular genetics under an embryologist's microscope: Jean Brachet, 1909-1988," Genetics, 131: 515-518.
48. Thieffry D. and Burian R.M., 1996, "Jean Brachet's alternative scheme for protein synthesis," Trends in Biochemical Science, 21: 114-117.
49. White III H.B., 1976, "Coenzymes as fossils of an earlier metabolic state," Journal of Molecular Evolution, 7: 101-104.
50. White III H.B., 1982, "Evolution of coenzymes and the origin of pyrimidine nucleotides," in: Everse J., Anderson M.B. and You K. (eds), The Pyrimidine Coenzymes, New York: Academic Press, 1-7.
51. White III H.B., 2002, "Konrad Bloch, evolution and the RNA World," Biochemistry Biophysical Research Communications, 292: 1267-1271.
52. Woese C.R., 1967, The Genetic Code: the molecular basis for gene expression, New York: Harper and Row.
53. Yarus M., 2011, Life from an RNA world: the ancestor within, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.