The RNA World:L the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world/
edited by Raymond F. Gesteland, Thomas R. Cech, John F. Atkins
- 3rd ed.
- New Delhi: I K International, 2006.
- xxiii, 768p: ill.; 24 cm.
The origins of RNA and RNA at the origin 1 Setting the stage: the history, chemistry, and geobiology behind RNA 2 Progress toward understanding the origin of the RNA world 3 Protocells: genetic polymers inside membrane vesicles
Building a functional RNA 4 Riboswitches and the RNA world 5 Catalytic strategies of self-cleaving ribozymes: relics of an RNA world? 6 How the group I intron works: a case study of RNA structure and function
3 Exiting the ancient RNA world-synthetases and ribosomes 7 RNA, Lipids, and membranes 8 Aminoacly tRNA synthetases: from the RNA world to the theater of proteins 9 The roles of RNA in the synthesis of protein 10 Evolution of ribosomes and translation
4 Richness of RNA roles in a modern RNA world 11 The RNP world 12 The ever-growing world of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins 13 Spliceosome structure and function 14 Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing as a paradigm for site-specific modifications of RNA molecules 15 Telomerase RNA 16 The shapely mRNA: knotting ventured, knotting gained
5 RNA continues to triumph over RNA 17 Group II introns: ribozymes that splice RNA and invade DNA 18 SINEs and LINEs: troublemakers, sabiteurs, benefactors, ancestors 19 The biology of short RNAs 20 Versatile roles of small RNA regulators in bacteria 21 Large noncoding RNAs in mammalian gene
6 Emerging tools 22 Predicting RNA secondary structure 23 A modular and hierarchical approach for all-atom RNA modeling 24 Automated in vitro selection and microarray applications for functional RNA sequences 25 RNA folding, unfolding, and dynamics, one molecule at a time