RNP-world: The ultimate essence of life is a ribonucleoprotein process

Abstract The fundamental essence of life is based on process of interaction between nucleic acids and proteins. In a prebiotic world, amino acids, peptides, ions, and other metabolites acted in protobiotic routes at the same time on which RNAs performed catalysis and self-replication. Nevertheless,...

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Main Authors: Sávio Torres de Farias, Francisco Prosdocimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2022-09-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572022000400106&tlng=en