Table of contents for The RNA world : the nature of modern RNA suggests a prebiotic RNA / edited by Raymond F. Gesteland, Thomas R. Cech, John F. Atkins.

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[RNA World 3rd edition TOC]
Contents
Preface, 
Foreword to the First Edition, 
Francis Crick
Prologue to the First Edition, 
James D. Watson
THE ORIGINS OF RNA AND RNA AT THE ORIGIN
1 		Setting the Stage. The History, Chemistry and Geobiology Behind RNA
S.A. Benner, M.A. Carrigan, A. Ricardo, and F. Frye
2 		Progress toward Understanding the Origin of the RNA World
G.F. Joyce and L.E. Orgel
3 		Protocells: Genetic Polymers Inside Membrane Vesicles
I.A. Chen, M.M. Hanczyc, P.L. Sazani, and J.W. Szostak
BUILDING A FUNCTIONAL RNA
4 		Roboswitches and the RNA World 
R.R. Breaker 
5		Catalytic Strategies of Self-cleaving Ribozymes: Relics of an RNA World?
		A. Ke and J.A. Doudna
6		How the Group I Intron Works: A Case Study of RNA Structure and Function 
		J.L. Hougland, J.A. Piccirilli, M. Forconi, J. Lee, and D. Herschlag
EXITING THE ANCIENT RNA WORLD - SYNTHETASES AND RIBOSOMES
7		RNA, Lipids and Membranes
T. Janas, T. Janas, and M. Yarus 
8 		Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases: From the RNA World to the Theatre of Proteins
P. Schimmel and K. Beebe
9 	The Roles of RNA in the Synthesis of Protein.
P.B. Moore and T.A. Steitz
10	Evolution of Ribosomes and Translation from an RNA World
H.F. Noller
RICHNESS OF RNA ROLES IN MODERN RNA WORLD
11	The RNP World
	T.R. Cech, D. Moras, K. Nagai, and J.R. Williamson
12 		The Ever-Growing World of Small Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins 
K.T. Tycowski, N.G. Kolev, N.K. Conrad, V. Fok, and J.A. Steitz
13		Spliceosome Structure and Function
C.L. Will and R. L¿hrmann
14	Uridine Insertion/Deletion RNA Editing as a Paradigm for Site-specific Modifications of RNA Molecules 
L. Simpson
15		Telomerase RNA
		E.H. Blackburn
16 		The shapely mRNA: Knotting Ventured, Knotting Gained
J.F. Atkins, R.F. Gesteland, R.J. Jackson, and N.M. Wills 
RNA CONTINUES TO TRIUMPH OVER DNA
17 		Group II Introns: Ribozymes that Splice RNA and Invade DNA
A.M. Pyle and A.M. Lambowitz
18		SINES and LINES: Troublemakers, Saboteurs, Benefactors, Ancestors
	A.M. Weiner	
19 	The Biology of Short RNAs 
	C.P. Petersen, J.G. Doench, A. Grishok, P.A. Sharp
20	Versatile Roles of Small RNA Regulators in Bacteria
	G. Storz and S. Gottesman
21	Large Non-coding RNAs in Mammalian Gene Dosage Regulation
 	R.J. Spencer and J.T. Lee
EMERGING TOOLS
22		Predicting RNA Secondary Structure
 	D.H. Mathews, S.J. Schroeder, D.H. Turner, and M. Zuker
23 		A Modular and Hierarchical Approach for All-atom RNA Modelling 				B. Masquida and E. Westhof
24	Automated In vitro Selection and Microarray Applications for Functional RNA Sequences
	A.D. Ellington, J.C. Cox, J.F. Lee, and J.R. Collett
25	RNA Folding, Unfolding, and Dynamics, One Molecular at a Time
	I. Tinoco, Jr. and B. Onoa
Index, 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

RNA -- Evolution.
Evolutionary genetics.