Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Nov 1, 1993
PMID: 8234335
The coding coenzyme handle hypothesis suggests that useful coding preceded translation. Early adapters, the ancestors of present-day anticodons, were charged with amino acids acting as coenzymes of ribozymes in a metabolically complex RNA world. The ancestral aminoacyl-adapter synthetas...read more
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