PMID: 9419222Mar 7, 1998Paper

Relics from the RNA world

Journal of Molecular Evolution
D JeffaresD Penny

Abstract

An RNA world is widely accepted as a probable stage in the early evolution of life. Two implications are that proteins have gradually replaced RNA as the main biological catalysts and that RNA has not taken on any major de novo catalytic function after the evolution of protein synthesis, that is, there is an essentially irreversible series of steps RNA --> RNP --> protein. This transition, as expected from a consideration of catalytic perfection, is essentially complete for reactions when the substrates are small molecules. Based on these principles we derive criteria for identifying RNAs in modern organisms that are relics from the RNA world and then examine the function and phylogenetic distribution of RNA for such remnants of the RNA world. This allows an estimate of the minimum complexity of the last ribo-organism-the stage just preceding the advent of genetically encoded protein synthesis. Despite the constraints placed on its size by a low fidelity of replication (the Eigen limit), we conclude that the genome of this organism reached a considerable level of complexity that included several RNA-processing steps. It would include a large protoribosome with many smaller RNAs involved in its assembly, pre-tRNAs and tRNA proce...Continue Reading

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