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Emergence of information transmission in a prebiotic RNA reactor

Item Type:Article
Title:Emergence of information transmission in a prebiotic RNA reactor
Creators Name:Obermayer, B., Krammer, H., Braun, D. and Gerland, U.
Abstract:A poorly understood step in the transition from a chemical to a biological world is the emergence of self-replicating molecular systems. We study how a precursor for such a replicator might arise in a hydrothermal RNA reactor, which accumulates longer sequences from unbiased monomer influx and random ligation. In the reactor, intra- and intermolecular base pairing locally protects from random cleavage. By analyzing stochastic simulations, we find temporal sequence correlations that constitute a signature of information transmission, weaker but of the same form as in a true replicator.
Keywords:Base Sequence, Biogenesis, Chemical Evolution, Kinetics, Nucleic Acid Conformation, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, Nucleotide Motifs, RNA
Source:Physical Review Letters
ISSN:0031-9007
Publisher:American Physical Society
Volume:107
Number:1
Page Range:018101
Date:1 July 2011
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.018101
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