TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Gesteland, Raymond F.
AU  - Cech, Thomas R.
AU  - Atkins, John F.
TI  - The RNA World:L the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA world
SN  - 818823799X
U1  - 572.88 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - I K International
KW  - RNA-Evolution
N1  - The origins of RNA and RNA at the origin
1 Setting the stage: the history, chemistry, and geobiology behind RNA
2 Progress toward understanding the origin of the RNA world
3 Protocells: genetic polymers inside membrane vesicles

Building a functional RNA
4 Riboswitches and the RNA world
5 Catalytic strategies of self-cleaving ribozymes: relics of an RNA world?
6 How the group I intron works: a case study of RNA structure and function

3 Exiting the ancient RNA world-synthetases and ribosomes
7 RNA, Lipids, and membranes
8 Aminoacly tRNA synthetases: from the RNA world to the theater of proteins
9 The roles of RNA in the synthesis of protein
10 Evolution of ribosomes and translation

4 Richness of RNA roles in a modern RNA world
11 The RNP world
12 The ever-growing world of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins
13 Spliceosome structure and function
14 Uridine insertion/deletion RNA editing as a paradigm for site-specific modifications of RNA molecules 
15 Telomerase RNA
16 The shapely mRNA: knotting ventured, knotting gained

5 RNA continues to triumph over RNA
17 Group II introns: ribozymes that splice RNA and invade DNA
18 SINEs and LINEs: troublemakers, sabiteurs, benefactors, ancestors
19 The biology of short RNAs
20 Versatile roles of small RNA regulators in bacteria
21 Large noncoding RNAs in mammalian gene

6 Emerging tools
22 Predicting RNA secondary structure
23 A modular and hierarchical approach for all-atom RNA modeling
24 Automated in vitro selection and microarray applications for functional RNA sequences
25 RNA folding, unfolding, and dynamics, one molecule at a time

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