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- Title
On the Re-Creation of Protoribosome Analogues in the Lab.
- Authors
Agmon, Ilana
- Abstract
The evolution of the translation system is a fundamental issue in the quest for the origin of life. A feasible evolutionary scenario necessitates the autonomous emergence of a protoribosome capable of catalyzing the synthesis of the initial peptides. The peptidyl transferase center (PTC) region in the modern ribosomal large subunit is believed to retain a vestige of such a prebiotic non-coded protoribosome, which would have self-assembled from random RNA chains, catalyzed peptide bond formation between arbitrary amino acids, and produced short peptides. Recently, three research groups experimentally demonstrated that several distinct dimeric constructs of protoribosome analogues, derived predicated on the approximate 2-fold rotational symmetry inherent in the PTC region, possess the ability to spontaneously fold, dimerize, and catalyze the formation of peptide bonds and of short peptides. These dimers are examined, aiming at retrieving information concerned with the characteristics of a prebiotic protoribosome. The analysis suggests preconditions for the laboratory re-creation of credible protoribosome analogues, including the preference of a heterodimer protoribosome, contradicting the common belief in the precedence of homodimers. Additionally, it derives a dynamic process which possibly played a role in the spontaneous production of the first bio-catalyzed peptides in the prebiotic world.
- Subjects
PEPTIDE bonds; ORIGIN of life; ROTATIONAL symmetry; HETERODIMERS; PEPTIDE synthesis; RIBOSOMES; RIBOSOMAL proteins
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024, Vol 25, Issue 9, p4960
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms25094960