Evolutionary BiologyNucleic Acids ResearchPeer-reviewed
Genomic database furnishes a spontaneous example of a functional Class II glycyl-tRNA synthetase urzyme
Sourav Kumar Patra, Jordan Douglas, Peter R. Wills…·Charles W. Carter
The paper identifies a functional urzyme, GlyCA, from an arctic fox genome that exhibits enhanced catalytic activity compared to known urzymes, supporting the idea that urzymes represent ancestral catalytic activities in genetic coding.
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