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Imaginary Ribozymes.

ABSTRACT: Biocatalysis is dominated by protein enzymes, and only a few classes of ribozymes are known to contribute to the task of promoting biochemical transformations. The RNA World theory encompasses the notion that earlier forms of life made use of a much greater diversity of ribozymes and other functional RNAs to guide complex metabolic states long before proteins had emerged in evolution. In recent years, the discoveries of various classes of ribozymes, riboswitches, and other noncoding RNAs in bacteria have provided additional support for the hypothesis that RNA molecules indeed have the catalytic competence to promote diverse chemical reactions without the aid of protein enzymes. Herein, some of the most striking observations made from examinations of natural riboswitches that bind small ligands are highlighted and used as a basis to imagine the characteristics and functions of long-extinct ribozymes from the RNA World.

SUBMITTER: Breaker RR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7919269 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Imaginary Ribozymes.

Breaker Ronald R RR

ACS chemical biology 20200803 8

Biocatalysis is dominated by protein enzymes, and only a few classes of ribozymes are known to contribute to the task of promoting biochemical transformations. The RNA World theory encompasses the notion that earlier forms of life made use of a much greater diversity of ribozymes and other functional RNAs to guide complex metabolic states long before proteins had emerged in evolution. In recent years, the discoveries of various classes of ribozymes, riboswitches, and other noncoding RNAs in bact ...[more]

PMID: 32687319

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