In Reply to: Re: Well,show us a testable, verifiable proof posted by tomservo on June 25, 2006 at 07:44:32:
This must have been an awful long time ago. And calling the ribosome a 'machine' is simply a human convention. Furtermore, why do you assume that because the details of the evolution of ribsomes aren't worked out, that the next best possibility is God?For some fairly recent reviews on the topic of the evolution of ribosomes and protein translation, see:
Bashan A, Yonath A.
Ribosome crystallography: catalysis and evolution of peptide-bond formation, nascent chain elongation and its co-translational folding.
Biochem Soc Trans. 2005 Jun;33(Pt 3):488-92. Review.
PMID: 15916549Ramakrishnan V, White SW.
Ribosomal protein structures: insights into the architecture, machinery and evolution of the ribosome.
Trends Biochem Sci. 1998 Jun;23(6):208-12. Review.
PMID: 9644974Wool IG, Chan YL, Gluck A.
Structure and evolution of mammalian ribosomal proteins.
Biochem Cell Biol. 1995 Nov-Dec;73(11-12):933-47. Review.
PMID: 8722009
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