title: RNA world: catalysis abets binding, but not vice versa.
abstract: The recent selection of a complex ribozyme capable of general polymerization on a template in trans has revealed how catalysts may have arisen from one another in the RNA world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Ellington
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D008024:Ligands; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D016337:RNA, Catalytic / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D016337:RNA, Catalytic; D012313:RNA; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases