Etsuko Miyamoto (rago at yk.rim.or.jp) wrote:
> Sir,
> I have a question about chemical evolution. Now the role of
> rebozime is focuced in the origin of life. But we know the protein
> is easy to synthesize in eary prebiotic stage from many results
> of experiments. Is it true that the origin of life is started from
> ribozime? If you have any thought, please tell me.
>> Thank you for your kindness!
Since a protein has no information content is a ded end. Even if you
would accidentally synthesize a functioning protein this could not
propagate, wheras nucleic acids can copy their sequence via nucleotide
pairing. Also, functional proteins contain from roughly a hundred amino
acids and up, a ribozyme (see spelling) manages with some 20 nucleotides.
Kaj
