Orotidine‐Containing RNA: Implications for the Hierarchical Selection (Systems Chemistry Emergence) of RNA
作者:Eun‐Kyong Kim、Vincent Martin、Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy
DOI:10.1002/chem.201702912
日期:2017.9.12
orotidine itself is absent in RNA. Given the prebiotic and biological relevance of orotic acid vis‐à‐vis uracil, we investigated orotidine‐containing RNA oligonucleotides and show that they have severely compromised base‐pairing properties. While not unexpected, these results suggest that the emergence of extant RNA cannot just be a consequence of the plausible prebiotic formation of its chemical constituents/building
HCN的标准生物碱基的益生元合成是RNA世界假说的基石。然而,它们在RNA原始途径中的作用仍存在争议。从HCN开始的完全相同的过程也产生了乳清酸,该乳清酸(通过Orotidine)在现有生物学中从头合成尿苷和胞苷(RNA中的信息碱基对)起着至关重要的作用。但是,RNA中不存在奥洛替丁本身。鉴于乳清酸相对于尿嘧啶的益生元和生物学相关性,我们研究了含奥洛替丁的RNA寡核苷酸,并表明它们具有严重损害的碱基配对特性。尽管并不出乎意料,但这些结果表明,现存RNA的出现不能仅仅是其化学成分/结构单元似宜的益生元形成的结果。