Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980orli...10....3m&link_type=abstract
Origins of Life, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp.3-14
Physics
3
Scientific paper
Orgel (1972) has suggested that polynucleotides with sequences of alternating purine/pyrimidine are likely to have predominated in prebiotic conditions. Therefore, in any early template-directed protein synthesis, the number of available codons would have been limited. However, for any self-organizing system to survive and propagate, some feedback must occur from the products of the synthesis to the control of the synthetic procedure itself; i.e. the protein synthesized should have catalysed some step in the initiation of template-directed synthesis. A given protein structure with a characteristic conformation and function would be optimal for the product of such a synthesis, and this in turn would limit the number of nucleotide sequences of those available able to give rise to a functioning synthetic assembly. A possible candidate for such an early polypeptide is the ferredoxin group of proteins and it is shown that with the present-day code the corresponding nucleotides do have a high percentage of alternating purine/pyrimidine sequences. Hence these combined restraints on the primitive synthetic machinery would direct the possible assignments of the genetic code helping to explain its regularity and universality.
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