一个选择性复制剂
A Saghatelian1, Y Yokobayashi, K Soltani
1Department of Chemistry, and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Nature
|March 10, 2001
概括
科学家们创造了一种自我复制的,可以从种族混合物中放大同体基的分子. 这种复制器展示了一种新的选择性编辑功能,支持多在同化性起源中的作用.
科学领域:
- 生命的起源研究 生命的起源研究
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 化学进化的化学进化
背景情况:
- 在生物系统中,同质性 (一种反体的占主导地位) 的起源仍然是一个重要的难题.
- 现有的物理化学模型很难解释同质基生物聚合物所需的实质性反体失衡.
- 奇罗选择性分子复制被认为是放大初始反体差异的关键机制.
研究的目的:
- 调查非酶性,自我复制在产生同质性方面的潜力.
- 探索在前生物化学中放大酶体过量的机制.
- 为自我复制的多在地球上同质性起源的作用提供实验支持.
主要方法:
- 基于已确定的原则,设计和合成一个32残留复制器.
- 实验展示了使用种族片段的选择性自催化.
- 分析该系统放大同体产品的能力及其立体化学歧视能力.
主要成果:
- 设计的复制器通过一种选择性自催化循环有效地放大来自赛混合物的同产品.
- 该系统表现出高保真度,对即使是单个立体化学突变的序列进行歧视.
- 观察到一种动态的立体化学"编辑"功能,利用异体的副产品来增强同体产品的形成.
结论:
- 自复制的多可以有效地放大来自racemic混合物的同化性.
- 观察到的选择性放大和编辑机制为同化性起源提供了合理的途径.
- 这些发现强化了自复制在早期生命的同体性质中发挥了关键作用的假设.
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