Astrobiology

Hot Topic: Do polypeptidic urzymes challenge the RNA world hypothesis?

Name: Hot Topic: Do polypeptidic urzymes challenge the RNA world hypothesis?
Start: 2014-01-17T15:15:00+01:00
End: 2014-01-17T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Arrhenius (KÖL) K317

by Britt-Marie Sjöberg (Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics)

Friday 17 Jan 2014, 15:15 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Arrhenius (KÖL) K317

Description

Based on a recent paper by Li, Francklyn, and Carter Jr in J Biol Chem (2013) 288: 26856-26863: Aminoacylating urzymes challenge the RNA world hypothesis (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.496125) (http://www.jbc.org/content/288/37/26856.long).