Readings for 9/27/95:


RNA World chapters 18 - 20.

1) Ellington, A. D. and Szostak, J. W. (1990) In vitro selection of RNA molecules that bind specific ligands. Nature 346, 818-822.

2) Hirao, I. and Ellington, A.D. Re-creating the RNA world, Current Biology 5, in press (September issue).

3) Kumar, P.K.R and Ellington, A. D. (1995) Artificial evolution and natural ribozymes, FASEB J. 9 (September issue).

4) Tian, Y., Adya, N., Wagner, S., Giam, C.-Z., Green, M.R. and Ellington, A.D. (1995) Dissecting protein:protein interactions between transcription factors with an RNA aptamer, RNA, 1, 317-326.

5) Lato, S., Boles, A.R. and Ellington, A.D. In vitro selection of RNA lectins: using combinatorial chemistry to interpret ribozyme evolution, Chemistry and Biology, 2, 291-303.

6) Bartel, D. P., Zapp, M., Green, M., Szostak, J. W. (1991) HIV-1 Rev regulation involves recognition of non-Watson-Crick base-pairs in viral RNA. Cell 67, 529-536.

7) Orgel, L. E. (1979) Selection in vitro. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205, 435-442.

8) Mills, D. R., Peterson, R. L. and Spiegelman, S. (1967) An extracellular Darwinian experiment with a self-duplicating nucleic acid molecule. PNAS 58, 217-224.

9) Breaker, R. and Joyce, G. (1994) Emergence of a replicating species from an in vitro RNA evolution reaction. PNAS 91, 6093-7.