One, two, infinity: Genomes filled with aptamers
One, two, infinity: Genomes filled with aptamers
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DOI:
10.1016/s1074-5521(02)00286-7
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发表时间:
2002-12-01
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通讯作者:
Singer, B
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作者:
Gold, L;Brody, E;Singer, B
One, Two the modern basis of catalysis, a contemporaneous partitioning of function could have left cofactors free of oligo-Individual cells limit production of unnecessary metabolic capacities by monitoring their immediate environ- nucleotides (to function as aids to the proteins that needed them for catalysis) and left oligonucleotides free ment and regulating gene expression appropriately. This presumably results in greater efficiency and energy utili- to encode proteins. White predicted an earlier world in which “shapes and tapes” were found in the same anzation while allowing rapid response to environmental changes. Cells respond to changes in individual metab- cient molecules, and that division of labor led to a simpler code (only four simple nucleotides) and better cataolites such as carbon and nitrogen sources or vitamins by regulating expression of genes necessary for synthe- lysts (proteins with cofactors, which were free to evolve or not, but were no longer bound by the rules for oligonusis or utilization of the specific metabolite. Curiously, although the ultimate chemical signal to which cells re- cleotides). White had a substantial vision into what we now call the “RNA world,” although he did not claim the spond is the metabolite itself, until now the regulatory factotum usually has been a protein. idea as conclusively as did Gilbert [8]. Because these two examples in E. coli of aptamer activity within an Ron Breaker and his colleagues [1, 2] have published two papers that demonstrate regulation of translation mRNA are in the context of expression systems that participate in the synthesis of cofactors, Breaker interthrough direct interaction of a small molecule metabolite with mRNAs encoding proteins necessary for their up- prets his findings as a reflection of the world that was. We love Harold B. White’s and Ron Breaker’s work, take or utilization. In the first paper, the btuB leader sequence, 5 to the translational initiation domain for yet we wonder if remnants are less important to this discussion than continuous selection for coordinated btuB, interacts directly with coenzyme B12 in such a way as to cause structural changes to the RNA that sequester regulation over the last several billion years, well after Harold B. White’s cofactors had left their previous oligothe translational initiation domain from ribosome inspection. The btuB gene encodes the receptor by which B12 nucleotide homes.