Non-coding RNAs and Inter-kingdom Communication
This book presents a state-of-the-art compilation of articles on the role of non-coding RNAs as pivotal molecules for establishing functional relationships between different organisms. It also describes how non-coding RNA molecules can act as dynamic comm
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ding RNAs and Inter-kingdom Communication
Non-coding RNAs and Inter-kingdom Communication
Ana Lúcia Leitão Francisco J. Enguita •
Editors
Non-coding RNAs and Inter-kingdom Communication
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Editors Ana Lúcia Leitão Universidade Nova de Lisboa Caparica Portugal
ISBN 978-3-319-39494-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39496-1
Francisco J. Enguita Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal
ISBN 978-3-319-39496-1
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Preface
More than 60 years ago, in 1954, James Watson and the Russian Physicist George Gamow founded the “RNA Tie club”, a scientific club of selected gentlemen members with the main objective of sharing their ideas and findings not yet mature enough to be published in scientific journals. Brainstorming sessions gave rise to many seminal concepts in cell biology, which were further demonstrated by laboratory experiences. Gamow postulated the concept of a “genetic code” based on the existence of triplets of bases (codons) that will translate the DNA language into protein amino acids. Furthermore, in the last 1950s, another illustrated member of the club, Francis Crick, enunciated the “adaptor theory” based on an intermediate molecule (transfer-RNA) that would be the physical link between nucleic acids and proteins. These ideas were later described in an essential Crick’s article, which is considered by many authors as the embryonic core of the concept of the RNA world. The RNA world stands on the idea that RNA molecules were the first precursors of the living cells, being the origin of the evolution of all biological macromolecules. Several arguments clearly support the theory that the primitive cells could be built over processing units based on RNA molecules, including t
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