| Preface/Front Matter |
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R.F. Gesteland, J.F. Atkins |
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| 1 Prospects for Understanding the Origin of the RNA World |
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Gerald F. Joyce, Leslie E. Orgel |
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| 2 Reading the Palimpsest: Contemporary Biochemical Data and the RNA World |
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Steven A. Benner, Mark A. Cohen, Gaston H. Gonnet, David B. Berkowitz, Kai P. Johnsson |
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| 3 Speculations on the Origin of Ribosomal Translocation |
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Robert Weiss, Joshua Cherry |
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| 4 Probing RNA Structure, Function, and History by Comparative Analysis |
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Carl R. Woese, Norman R. Pace |
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(91-117) |
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| 5 Ribosomes and the RNA World |
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Peter B. Moore |
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| 6 On the Origin of the Ribosome: Coevolution of Subdomains of tRNA and rRNA |
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Harry F. Noller |
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| 7 Transfer RNA: An RNA for All Seasons |
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Dieter Söll |
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| 8 Antibiotics and the RNA World: A Role for Low-molecular-weight Effectors in Biochemical Evolution? |
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Julian Davies, Uwe Von Ahsen, Renée Schroeder |
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| 9 An RNA-Amino Acid Affinity |
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Michael Yarus |
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(205-217) |
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| 10 Similarities and Differences between RNA and DNA Recognition by Proteins |
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Thomas A. Steitz |
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(219-237) |
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| 11 Structure and Mechanism of the Large Catalytic RNAs: Group I and Group II Introns and Ribonuclease P |
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Thomas R. Cech |
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(239-269) |
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| 12 Divalent Metal Ions in RNA Folding and Catalysis |
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Tao Pan, David M. Long, Olke C. Uhlenbeck |
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| 13 Splicing of Precursors to mRNA by the Spliceosome |
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Melissa J. Moore, Charles C. Query, Phillip A. Sharp |
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| 14 The Diverse World of Small Ribonucleoproteins |
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Susan J. Baserga, Joan A. Steitz |
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| 15 RNA Editing: New Uses for Old Players in the RNA World |
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Brenda L. Bass |
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| 16 Evolution of Functional Structures of RNA |
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Jun-ichi Tomizawa |
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(419-445) |
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| 17 Thermodynamic Considerations for Evolution by RNA |
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Douglas H. Turner, Philip C. Bevilacqua |
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| 18 RNA Structural Elements and RNA Function |
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Jacqueline R. Wyatt, Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. |
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| 19 RNA: The Shape of Things to Come |
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Larry Gold, Pat Allen, Jon Binkley, David Brown, Dan Schneider, Sean R. Eddy, Craig Tuerk, Louis Green, Sheela Macdougal, Diane Tasset |
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| 20 In Vitro Selection of Functional RNA Sequences |
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Jack W. Szostak, Andrew D. Ellington |
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(511-533) |
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| 21 Contemporary RNA Genomes |
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John F. Atkins |
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(535-556) |
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| 23 The Genomic Tag Hypothesis: Modern Viruses as Molecular Fossils of Ancient Strategies for Genomic Replication |
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Nancy Maizels, Alan M. Weiner |
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| APPENDIX 1: Structures of Base Pairs Involving at Least Two Hydrogen Bonds |
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Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. |
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(603-607) |
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| APPENDIX 2: RNA Pseudoknots |
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Cornelis W.A. Pleij |
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| APPENDIX 3: Stereo Pairs of RNA Fragments |
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Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. |
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