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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Relaxed Substrate Specificity in Qβ Replicase through Long-Term In Vitro Evolution.

Kohtoh Yukawa, Ryo Mizuuchi, Norikazu Ichihashi

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Kohtoh YukawaDepartment of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
Ryo MizuuchiJST, PRESTO, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6712-1040
Norikazu IchihashiDepartment of Life Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7087-2718

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A change from RNA- to DNA-based genetic systems is hypothesized as a major transition in the evolution of early life forms. One of the possible requirements for this transition is a change in the substrate specificity of the replication enzyme. It is largely unknown how such changes would have occurred during early evolutionary history. In this study, we present evidence that an RNA replication enzyme that has evolved in the absence of deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs) relaxes its substrate specificity and incorporates labeled dNTPs. This result implies that ancient replication enzymes, which probably evolved in the absence of dNTPs, could have incorporated dNTPs to synthesize DNA soon after dNTPs became available. The transition from RNA to DNA, therefore, might have been easier than previously thought.

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experimental evolutionorigin of DNAQβ replicaseRNA world

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PMID35054425
PMCPMC8778257

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