Molecular Origins of Life, Munich 2025

Session

Session VIII

Session VIII

Jul 17, 2025, 4:30 PM

Online

20. Mechanisms to increase selectivity in an RNA World

Irene Chen (UCLA)

7/17/25, 4:30 PM

Mechanisms to increase chemical selectivity would be important in the prebiotic RNA world. We studied the activity of self-aminoacylating ribozymes for six different amino acid substrates. Ribozyme activity was positively correlated with specificity, indicating that natural selection for increased activity would also lead to increased specificity, as an evolutionary by-product. Another...

7. Robustness of collectively coded information

Arvind Murugan (University of Chicago)

7/17/25, 5:00 PM

31. Meet the Speakers - Session VIII

7/17/25, 5:30 PM