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Origin of the 16S Ribosomal Molecule from Ancestor tRNAs

Version 1 : Received: 23 January 2019 / Approved: 28 January 2019 / Online: 13 February 2019 (00:00:00 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 23 January 2019 / Approved: 28 January 2019 / Online: 9 August 2019 (00:00:00 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 23 January 2019 / Approved: 28 January 2019 / Online: 4 September 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)

How to cite: de Farias, S.; Rego, T.; José, M. Origin of the 16S Ribosomal Molecule from Ancestor tRNAs. Preprints 2020, 2020110075. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020046 de Farias, S.; Rego, T.; José, M. Origin of the 16S Ribosomal Molecule from Ancestor tRNAs. Preprints 2020, 2020110075. https://doi.org/10.3390/sci1020046

Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that concatemers of ancestral tRNAs gave rise to the 16S ribosomal RNA. We built an ancestral sequence of proto-tRNAs that showed a significant identity of 51.69% and a percentage of structural identity of 0.941 with the 16S ribosomal molecule. We also propose a hypothesis for the emergence of translation.

Keywords

16S rRNA; proto-tRNAs; evolution; translation system; origins

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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