Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases, the Genetic Code, and the Evolutionary Process

By Carl R. Woese, G. Olsen, M. Ibba, Dieter Söll. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2000

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Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world (2008, background): “Perhaps, surprisingly, these include not only most if not all aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, enzymes that function in relative isolation (202,203), but also many ribosomal proteins, components of the paradigmatic molecular machine, the ribosome (204,205).”
Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer. (2002, background): “Transfers occurring prior to the diversification of a group such as the enterobacteria can only be detected in larger phylogenetic reconstructions (e.g., Woese et al. 2000).”
Collective evolution and the genetic code. (2006, background): “Our framework fits naturally the recently proposed picture that early evolution was dominated by horizontal gene transfer, as evidenced by detailed phylogenetic[15], biochemical[16] and structural[17] analyses of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.”
Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism (2009, background): “Although some biologists believe that pre-cellular life is best conceived as ‘unselfish’ communality in which genetic resources are shared (Woese et al. 2000), others such as Dawkins presume that pre-cellular life was driven by selfish replication, and that promiscuous horizontal exchange simply…”
Dynamical networks in tRNA:protein complexes (2009, methodology): “CARMA: A molecular dynamics analysis program.”
MultiSeq: unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis (2006, background): “Multiple sequence alignments (MSA) are instrumental in identifying key conserved areas of a sequence, developing an evolutionary history of a molecule [17], and examining the covariance within a sequence in response to evolutionary pressure [18].”
Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities. (2004, background): “Other genes that contain phylogenetic information but have not been used in metagenomic analyses include DNA gyrase (125), chaperonin-60 (38, 51, 108), RNA polymerase β-subunit (24, 73), ATPase β-subunit (67), elongation factor TU (67), heat shock protein 70 (41), σ 70-type sigma factor (42), and tR”