A Potential Role for Aminoacylation in Primordial RNA Copying Chemistry
A. Radakovic, T. H. Wright, V. S. Lelyveld, J. W. Szostak
This study investigates whether aminoacylation could have facilitated nonenzymatic RNA replication, finding that aminoacylated RNAs enable faster primer extension and ligation reactions under protocell-like conditions.
bioRxiv · Dec 6, 2020Biochemistry