The RNA world : the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world /

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Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2006.
Description:xxiii, 768 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cold Spring Harbor monograph series ; 43
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5782494
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Other authors / contributors:Gesteland, Raymond F.
Cech, Thomas.
Atkins, John F.
ISBN:0879697393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents also issued online.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the first edition / Francis Crick
  • Prologue to the second edition / James D. Watson
  • 1. Setting the stage : the history, chemistry, and geobiology behind RNA / S. A. Benner, M. A. Carrigan, A. Ricardo and F. Frye
  • 2. Progress toward understanding the origin of the RNA world / G. F. Joyce and L. E. Orgel
  • 3. Protocells : genetic polymers inside membrane vesicles / I. A. Chen, M. M. Hanczyc, P. L. Sazani and J. W. Szostak
  • 4. Riboswitches and the RNA world / R. R. Breaker
  • 5. Catalytic strategies of self-cleaving ribozymes : relics of an RNA world? / A. Ke and J. A. Doudna
  • 6. How the group I intron works : a case study of RNA structure and function / J. L. Hougland, J. A. Piccirilli, M. Forconi, J. Lee and D. Herschlag
  • 7. RNA, lipids, and membranes / T. Janas, T. Janas and M. Yarus
  • 8. Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases : from the RNA world to the theater of proteins / P. Schimmel and K. Beebe
  • 9. The roles of RNA in the synthesis of protein / P. B. Moore and T. A. Steitz
  • 10. Evolution of ribosomes and translation from an RNA world / H. F. Noller
  • 11. The RNP world / T. R. Cech, D. Moras, K. Nagai and J. R. Williamson
  • 12. The ever-growing world of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins / K. T. Tycowski, N. G. Kolev, N. K. Conrad, V. Fok and J. A. Steitz
  • 13. Spliceosome structure and function / C. L. Will and R. Luhrmann
  • 14. Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing as a paradigm for site-specific modifications of RNA molecules / L. Simpson
  • 15. Telomerase RNA / E. H. Blackburn
  • 16. The shapely mRNA : knotting ventured, knotting gained / J. F. Atkins, R. F. Gesteland, R. J. Jackson and N. M. Wills
  • 17. Group II introns : ribozymes that splice RNA and invade DNA / A. M. Pyle and A. M. Lambowitz
  • 18. SINEs and LINEs : troublemakers, saboteurs, benefactors, ancestors / A. M. Weiner
  • 19. The biology of short RNAs / C. P. Petersen, J. G. Doench, A. Grishok and P. A. Sharp
  • 20. Versatile roles of small RNA regulators in bacteria / G. Storz and S. Gottesman
  • 21. Large noncoding RNAs in mammalian gene dosage regulation / R. J. Spencer and J. T. Lee
  • 22. Predicting RNA secondary structure / D. H. Mathews, S. J. Schroeder, D. H. Turner and M. Zuker
  • 23. A modular and hierarchical approach for all-atom RNA modeling / B. Masquida and E. Westhof
  • 24. Automated in vitro selection and microarray applications for functional RNA sequences / A. D. Ellington, J. C. Cox, J. F. Lee and J. R. Collett
  • 25. RNA folding, unfolding, and dynamics, one molecule at a time / I. Tinoco, Jr. and B. Onoa.