2016
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201607919
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RNA–DNA Chimeras in the Context of an RNA World Transition to an RNA/DNA World

Abstract: Scheme 1. The RNA world concept. a) Transition from ah omogeneous RNA backbone to ah omogeneous DNA backbone is assumed during the invention of DNA by RNA, b) without consideration of the role of heterogeneous backbone chimeric sequences that would be formed.[*] Dr.

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“…It should be noted that the shown mechanism bears a strong similarity to chemical systems that were able to amplify a bias between chiral molecules 54 . We therefore hypothesize that the concentration dependence of the ligation network could also purify backbone heterogeneity based on their differential duplex stability 55 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It should be noted that the shown mechanism bears a strong similarity to chemical systems that were able to amplify a bias between chiral molecules 54 . We therefore hypothesize that the concentration dependence of the ligation network could also purify backbone heterogeneity based on their differential duplex stability 55 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Krishnamurthy group has recently proposed a similar pathway leading from an initially heterogeneous set of templates to an increasingly homogeneous set of replication products. 26 , 47 , 48 In their case the physical mechanism leading to homogeneity is different, and is based on the surprising observation that homogeneous all-RNA or all-DNA oligonucleotides bind more strongly than do otherwise identical but heterogeneous oligonucleotides to complementary but heterogeneous templates. As a result of the stronger binding, the template-directed ligation of all RNA or all DNA oligonucleotides is favored over the ligation of mixed oligonucleotides, such that over repeated cycles of ligation-mediated replication, relatively homogeneous replication products should emerge.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… 14 Long before recent suggestions of prebiotic routes to the 2′-deoxyribonucleotides, 16 , 23 these DNA building blocks were known to be less effective than ribonucleotides in nonenzymatic template copying reactions. 24 However, recent work showing that mixed ribo/deoxy oligonucleotide duplexes have much lower melting temperatures than either homogeneous RNA or DNA duplexes 25 , 26 suggests that this heterogeneity might facilitate replication by enhancing strand separation. Given the wide range of effects of noncanonical nucleotides on nonenzymatic template directed copying chemistry, a systematic study of the effects of prebiotically plausible variant nucleotides on copying chemistry is needed in order to understand if and how more homogeneous modern RNA could have arisen from complex prebiotic mixtures of nucleotides.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Based on the present and previousassessments [35][36][37][38][39], quantum information processing [40][41][42][43][44][45] exhibited by prokaryotic [15][16][17]20,21] and eukaryotic [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] genomic systems can be evolutionarily explained in terms of EPR-generated [29][30][31] entangled proton qubits originating in primordial RNA -ribozyme duplex segments [35,36,[57][58][59][60][61][62][63], which subsequently were quantum mechanically processed by Grover's-type [40] quantum readers. The molecular genetics history of observing [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25], but misidentifying, time-dependent EPR-generated [29][30]…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Successful implementation of Grover's [40] processors executing quantum information processing of EPRgenerated [29][30][31], entangled proton qubits in ancient [46] T4 phage [15][16][17] and modern eukaryotic [37][38][39]54] systems argues that "ancient" quantum transcription of entangled proton qubits [35,36], and attendant translation, antedate "standard" classical transcription [28] of genetic information where "evolved" translation [57] is executed in terms of fully developed ribosomes with tRNAs, etc. In this case, ancestral ribozyme -RNA duplex systems [35,36,[58][59][60][61] acquired rudimentary quantum processing [40] abilities to implement quantum transcription, and attendant translation, of EPR-generated [29][30][31] entangled proton qubits, and consequently, such ancestral genomic systems would not necessarily be evolutionarily terminal as concluded by Koonin's [57] classical assessments.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%