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The evolution of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, the biosynthetic pathways of amino acids and the genetic code.

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life ·Vol. 22 ·No. 5 ·1992-00-00 ·Pages 309-19

Di Giulio M

Abstract

In this paper the partition metric is used to compare binary trees deriving from (i) the study of the evolutionary relationships between aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, (ii) the physicochemical properties of amino acids and (iii) the biosynthetic relationships between amino acids. If the tree defining the evolutionary relationships between aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is assumed to be a manifestation of the mechanism that originated the organization of the genetic code, then the results appear to indicate the following: the hypothesis that regards the genetic code as a map of the biosynthetic relationships between amino acids seems to explain the organization of the genetic code, at least as plausibly as the hypotheses that consider the physicochemical properties of amino acids as the main adaptive theme that lead to the structuring of the code.

MeSH Terms
Amino Acids/biosynthesis Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/chemistry Biological Evolution Genetic Code Humans
Chemicals
Amino Acids Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases
Authors & Affiliations
1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Di Giulio M
International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Naples, Italy.
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Article Info
Journal
Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life
Abbr.
Orig Life Evol Biosph
ISSN
0169-6149
DOI
10.1007/BF01810859
Published
1992-00-00
Pages
309-19
Language
English
Region
Netherlands
NLM ID
8610391
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF01810859 View journal details
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