Circularity and self-cleavage as a strategy for the emergence of a chromosome in the RNA-based protocell

Computer Simulation on the Cooperation of Functional Molecules during the Early Stages of Evolution

(2012) Wentao Ma et al.   PLoS One

Universal Sequence Replication, Reversible Polymerization and Early Functional Biopolymers: A Model for the Initiation of Prebiotic Sequence Evolution

(2012) Sara Imari Walker et al.   PLoS One

On the Origin of DNA Genomes: Evolution of the Division of Labor between Template and Catalyst in Model Replicator Systems

(2011) Nobuto Takeuchi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Simple Template-Dependent Ligase Ribozyme as the RNA Replicase Emerging First in the RNA World

(2010) Wentao Ma et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Putative One-Pot Prebiotic Polypeptides with Ribonucleolytic Activity

(2010) Jorge P. López-Alonso et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Intronic hammerhead ribozymes are ultraconserved in the human genome

(2010) Marcos de la Peña et al.   EMBO REPORTS

miR-ID: A novel, circularization-based platform for detection of microRNAs

(2010) P. Kumar et al.   RNA

Ubiquitous presence of the hammerhead ribozyme motif along the tree of life

(2010) M. de la Pena et al.   RNA

The emergence of ribozymes synthesizing membrane components in RNA-based protocells

(2009) Wentao Ma et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

The Many Pathways of RNA Degradation

(2009) Jonathan Houseley et al.   CELL