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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2017

Two genetic codes: Repetitive syntax for active non-coding RNAs; non-repetitive syntax for the DNA archives.

Guenther Witzany

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The Non-continuum Nature of Eukaryotic Transcriptional Regulation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022
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  5. In the Beginning was a Mutualism - On the Origin of Translation.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2018
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Guenther WitzanyTelos - Philosophische Praxis, Buermoos, Austria.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current knowledge of the RNA world indicates 2 different genetic codes being present throughout the living world. In contrast to non-coding RNAs that are built of repetitive nucleotide syntax, the sequences that serve as templates for proteins share-as main characteristics-a non-repetitive syntax. Whereas non-coding RNAs build groups that serve as regulatory tools in nearly all genetic processes, the coding sections represent the evolutionarily successful function of the genetic information storage medium. This indicates that the differences in their syntax structure are coherent with the differences of the functions they represent. Interestingly, these 2 genetic codes resemble the function of all natural languages, i.e., the repetitive non-coding sequences serve as appropriate tool for organization, coordination and regulation of group behavior, and the non-repetitive coding sequences are for conservation of instrumental constructions, plans, blueprints for complex protein-body architecture. This differentiation may help to better understand RNA group behavioral motifs.

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DNArepetitive sequencesRNARNA group identitiesRNA stem loops

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PMID29149223
PMCPMC5398208

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