The world of catalytic nucleic acids

Details The world of catalytic nucleic acids The world of catalytic nucleic acids

Aug 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.496..349j&link_type=abstract

In: Exo-/astro-biology. Proceedings of the First European Workshop, 21 - 23 May 2001, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. Eds.: P. Ehrenfreu

Biology

Catalytic Nucleic Acids

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The finding by Tom Cech and Sydney Altman that RNA can be both informational and catalytic is the pillar on which the RNA world hypothesis stands. This hypothesis relies on the premise that RNA can catalyze its own replication, can synthesize proteins and can chemically sustain a primitive metabolism. This paper presents an overview of the catalytic potential of nucleic acids that have been uncovered the past 10 years by in vitro evolution techniques. Besides the fact that new catalytic nucleic acids uphold the prevalence of RNA at an early stage of life, they can have interesting applications in therapeutics, biotechnology and nanotechnology.

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