Processive RNA polymerization and promoter recognition in an RNA World.

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Early life is thought to have required the self-replication of RNA by RNA replicases. However, how such replicases evolved and subsequently enabled gene expression remains largely unexplored. We engineered and selected a holopolymerase ribozyme that uses a sigma factor-like specificity primer to first recognize an RNA promoter sequence and then, in a second step, rearrange to a processive elongation form. Using...

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