The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life

von: Lluís Ribas de Pouplana

Springer-Verlag, 2005

ISBN: 9780387268873 , 266 Seiten

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The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life


 

CONTENTS

5

FOREWORD

11

PREFACE

14

The Early Earth

15

Reconstructing the Universal Tree of Life

29

The Nature of the Last G)mmon Ancestor

48

Ribozyme-Catalyzed Genetics

62

The Evolutionary History of the Translation Machinery

106

Functional Evolution of Ribosomes

120

Aminoacyi-tRNA Synthetases as Clues to Establishment of the Genetic Code

133

The Relation between Function, Structure and Evolution of Elongation Factors Tu

148

Origin and Evolution of DNA and DNA Replication Machineries

159

Early Evolution of DNA Repair Mechanisms

183

Extant Variations in the Genetic Code

197

Expanding the Genetic Code in Vitro and in Vivo

235

INDEX

264