RNA worlds : from life's origins to diversity in gene regulation / edited by John F. Atkins, Raymond F. Gesteland, Thomas R. Cech.

Other author Atkins, John F.
Other author Gesteland, Raymond F.
Other author Cech, Thomas.
Format Book
Publication InfoCold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxv, 361 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword to the first edition of The RNA world / Francis Crick -- Prologue to the first edition of The RNA world / James D. Watson -- The RNA worlds in context / Thomas R. Cech -- Setting the stage: the history, chemistry, and geobiology behind RNA / Steven A. Benner, Hyo-Joong Kim, Zunyi Yang -- The origins of the RNA world / Michael P. Robertson, Gerald F. Joyce -- Getting past the RNA world: the initial Darwinian ancestor / Michael Yarus -- The origins of cellular life / Jason P. Schrum, Ting F. Zhu, Jack W. Szostak -- Riboswitches and the RNA world / Ronald R. Breaker -- Riboswitches: structures and mechanisms / Andrew D. Garst, Andrea L. Edwards, Robert T. Batey -- Small self-cleaving ribozymes / Adrian R. Ferré-D'Amaré, William G. Scott -- Group II introns: mobile ribozymes that invade DNA / Alan M. Lambowitz, Steven Zimmerly -- The roles of RNA in the synthesis of protein / Peter B. Moore, Thomas A. Steitz -- Evolution of protein synthesis from an RNA world / Harry F. Noller -- the ribosome: some hard facts about its structure and hot air about its evolution / V. Ramakrishnan -- Noncoding RNPs of viral origin / Joan Steitz ... [et al.] -- Spliceosome structure and function / Cindy L. Will, Reinhard Lührmann -- Telomerase: an RNP enzyme synthesizes DNA / Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Kathleen Collins -- Bacterial small RNA regulators: versatile roles and rapidly evolving variations / Susan Gottesman, Gisela Storz -- RNA in defense: CRISPRs protect prokaryotes against mobile genetic elements / Matthijs M. Jore, Stan J.J. Brouns, John van der Oost -- Ancestral roles of small RNAs: an ago-centric perspective / Leemor Joshua-Tor, Gregory J. Hannon -- RNA interference and heterochromatin assembly / Tom Volpe, Robert A. Martienssen -- The X as model for RNA's niche in epigenomic regulation / Jeannie T. Lee -- The long arm of long noncoding RNAs: roles as sensors regulating gene transcriptional programs / Xiangting Wang ... [et al.] -- Folding and finding RNA secondary structure / David H. Mathews, Walter N. Moss, Douglas H. Turner -- Predicting and modeling RNA architecture / Eric Westhof, Benoît Masquida, Fabrice Jossinet -- RNA reactions one molecule at a time / Ignacio Tinoco, Gang Chen, Xiaohui Qu -- Aptamers and the RNA world, pat and present / Larry Gold ... [et al.] -- In vivo RNAi: today and tomorrow / Norbert Perrimon, Jian-Quan Ni, Lizabeth Perkins.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010027850
ISBN9780879699468 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0879699469 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QH450 .R635 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold