Essentials in the Life Process Indicated by the Self-Referential Genetic Code
1Laboratório de Biodiversidade e Evolução Molecular, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270.901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, romeucardosoguimaraes@gmail.com.
Abstract:
The self-referential genetic encoding starts with glycine and serine, in the realm of one-carbon units of metabolism. It is proposed that the prototRNA dimer-directed mechanism of protein synthesis and encoding promotes a sink dynamics that corresponds to the driving 'force' for the fixation of the supporting metabolic pathways. A succession of processes is delineated, ending up in reproduction, which accomplished the function of reinforcing the protein synthesis metabolic sink mechanism.
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