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The Effect Of Dynamic Kinetic Selection On An Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti
The Effect Of Dynamic Kinetic Selection On An Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti
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Dynamic Kinetic Selection (DKS) suggests that kinetic, rather than thermodynamic, stability will dictate the composition of a replicating population of biomolecules. Here, the results obtained from a series of five related reactions involving gradually increasing percentages of randomly-mutated substrate fragments to generate variants of full-length Azoarcus group I intron through an autocatalytic self-assembly reaction involving a series of recombination events, showed DKS as a driving factor in dictating the population composition of full-length product assembled from substrates that had fewer positions available to randomization.
In trying to elucidate a plausible scheme for the origins of complex biomolecules on the prebiotic …