Question 6: how did translation occur?
We have not yet reached a generally accepted view on how the genetic code might have originated. What has been proposed so far? The main part of the contribution to the panel discussion was devoted to recall to the audience the chronological order of publications the main aim of which it was, at least theoretically, to somehow connect physico-chemical properties of physically proximal 'universal adapters', usually some kind of nucleic acid polymer, with reactive forms of physically proximal amino acids that would subsequently polymerise into polypeptides.
Strazewski
Peter
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Laboratoire de Synthèse de Biomolécules (UMR 5246), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 bvd du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. strazewski@univ-lyon1.fr
D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005815:Genetic Code; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis
D000596:Amino Acids