Cited by 191Origins and Evolution of LifeRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsEvolution and Genetic Dynamics

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 46 of the 46 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

The origin of DNA genomes and DNA replication proteins

Forterre, P·2002·Current Opinion in Microbiology

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

In recent years, it has became clear that most proteins involved in cellular DNA precursor synthesis or DNA replication have been 'invented' more than once, indicating that the transition from RNA to DNA genomes was more complex than previously thought. Several authors have suggested that DNA viruses, which often encode their own version of these proteins, played an important role in this process. The nature of the genome of the last universal cellular ancestor (LUCA) -- that is, RNA or DNA, prokaryotic-like or eukaryotic-like -- remains in dispute. A hyperthermophilic LUCA would have suggested a circular, double-stranded DNA genome; however, recent data favor a mesophilic or moderately thermophilic LUCA.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/s1369-5274(02)00360-0

Cites

46 of 46 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

DNA Topoisomerases: Structure, Function, and Mechanism
Champoux, J. J. (2001) · Annual Review of Biochemistry · doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.70.1.369 · Cited by 2,804
Crystal structure of the ribosome at 5.5 Å resolution
Yusupov, M. M., Yusupova, G. Z., Baucom, A., Lieberman, K., Earnest, T. N., Cate, J. H. D., & Noller, H. F. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1060089 · Cited by 1,944
DNA Polymerases: Structural Diversity and Common Mechanisms
Steitz, T. A. (1999) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.274.25.17395 · Cited by 848
Interpreting the universal phylogenetic tree
Woese, C. R. (2000) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.97.15.8392 · Cited by 644
Common Origin of Four Diverse Families of Large Eukaryotic DNA Viruses
Iyer, L. M., Aravind, L., & Koonin, E. V. (2001) · Journal of Virology · doi:10.1128/jvi.75.23.11720-11734.2001 · Cited by 556
A mechanism for initiating RNA-dependent RNA polymerization
Butcher, S. J., Grimes, J. M., Makeyev, E. V., Bamford, D. H., & Stuart, D. I. (2001) · Nature · doi:10.1038/35065653 · Cited by 496
A Nonhyperthermophilic Common Ancestor to Extant Life Forms
Galtier, N., Tourasse, N., & Gouy, M. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.283.5399.220 · Cited by 442
Did DNA replication evolve twice independently?
Leipe, D. D., Aravind, L., & Koonin, E. V. (1999) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/27.17.3389 · Cited by 351
The origins and ongoing evolution of viruses
Hendrix, R. W., Lawrence, J. G., Hatfull, G. F., & Casjens, S. (2000) · Trends in Microbiology · doi:10.1016/s0966-842x(00)01863-1 · Cited by 349
An Alternative Flavin-Dependent Mechanism for Thymidylate Synthesis
Myllykallio, H., Lipowski, G., Leduc, D., Filée, J., Forterre, P., & Liebl, U. (2002) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1072113 · Cited by 284
Self-citation

Show all 46 references

Sorted by citations

Evolutionary history and higher order classification of AAA+ ATPases
Iyer, L. M., Leipe, D. D., Koonin, E. V., & Aravind, L. (2003) · Journal of Structural Biology · doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2003.10.010 · Cited by 782
Comparative genomics, minimal gene-sets and the last universal common ancestor
Koonin, E. V. (2003) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nrmicro751 · Cited by 661
Diverse Functions of Restriction-Modification Systems in Addition to Cellular Defense
Vasu, K., & Nagaraja, V. (2013) · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · doi:10.1128/mmbr.00044-12 · Cited by 639
Evolutionary genomics of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses
Iyer, L. M., Balaji, S., Koonin, E. V., & Aravind, L. (2006) · Virus Research · doi:10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.009 · Cited by 585
On the origin of genomes and cells within inorganic compartments
Koonin, E. V., & Martin, W. (2005) · Trends in Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.tig.2005.09.006 · Cited by 406
The origin of viruses and their possible roles in major evolutionary transitions
Forterre, P. (2006) · Virus Research · doi:10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.010 · Cited by 377
Self-citation
Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: structural insights and new members
Iyer, L. M. (2005) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gki702 · Cited by 280
The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner
Glansdorff, N., Xu, Y., & Labedan, B. (2008) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/1745-6150-3-29 · Cited by 264
The two ages of the RNA world, and the transition to the DNA world: a story of viruses and cells
Forterre, P. (2005) · Biochimie · doi:10.1016/j.biochi.2005.03.015 · Cited by 256
Self-citation
Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon
Boussau, B., Blanquart, S., Necsulea, A., Lartillot, N., & Gouy, M. (2008) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature07393 · Cited by 242
Virus World as an Evolutionary Network of Viruses and Capsidless Selfish Elements
Koonin, E. V., & Dolja, V. V. (2014) · Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews · doi:10.1128/mmbr.00049-13 · Cited by 253
Three RNA cells for ribosomal lineages and three DNA viruses to replicate their genomes: A hypothesis for the origin of cellular domain
Forterre, P. (2006) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0510333103 · Cited by 242
Self-citation
Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution.
Claverie, J. (2006) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-6-110 · Cited by 237
On the origin of the translation system and the genetic code in the RNA world by means of natural selection, exaptation, and subfunctionalization
Wolf, Y. I., & Koonin, E. V. (2007) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-14 · Cited by 235
“Thus, plausible, even if conflicting, accounts of the emergence of these systems have been derived from comparative-genomic data and evolutionary reasoning [70,140-144].”
Background
Long non-coding RNA: its evolutionary relics and biological implications in mammals: a review
Dhanoa, J. K., Sethi, R. S., Verma, R., Arora, J. S., & Mukhopadhyay, C. S. (2018) · Journal of Animal Science and Technology · doi:10.1186/s40781-018-0183-7 · Cited by 225
A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution
Nasir, A., & Caetano‐Anollés, G. (2015) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500527 · Cited by 220
Viruses are essential agents within the roots and stem of the tree of life
Villarreal, L. P., & Witzany, G. (2009) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.014 · Cited by 218
Defining Life: The Virus Viewpoint
Forterre, P. (2010) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-010-9194-1 · Cited by 199
Self-citation
Phylogenomics of DNA topoisomerases: their origin and putative roles in the emergence of modern organisms
Forterre, P., & Gadelle, D. (2009) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkp032 · Cited by 190
Self-citation
The universal tree of life: an update
Forterre, P. (2015) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00717 · Cited by 199
Self-citation
Phylogenetic and Phyletic Studies of Informational Genes in Genomes Highlight Existence of a 4th Domain of Life Including Giant Viruses
Boyer, M., Madoui, M., Gimenez, G., Scola, B. L., & Raoult, D. (2010) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015530 · Cited by 190
The Great Billion‐year War between Ribosome‐ and Capsid‐encoding Organisms (Cells and Viruses) as the Major Source of Evolutionary Novelties
Forterre, P., & Prangishvili, D. A. (2009) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04993.x · Cited by 172
Self-citation
Medusavirus, a Novel Large DNA Virus Discovered from Hot Spring Water
Yoshikawa, G., Blanc‐Mathieu, R., Song, C., Kayama, Y., Mochizuki, T., Murata, K., Ogata, H., & Takemura, M. (2019) · Journal of Virology · doi:10.1128/jvi.02130-18 · Cited by 170
The evolution of large DNA viruses: combining genomic information of viruses and their hosts
Shackelton, L. A., & Holmes, E. C. (2004) · Trends in Microbiology · doi:10.1016/j.tim.2004.08.005 · Cited by 149
The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth
McInerney, J. O., O’Connell, M. J., & Pisani, D. (2014) · Nature Reviews Microbiology · doi:10.1038/nrmicro3271 · Cited by 141
Hydrothermal Focusing of Chemical and Chemiosmotic Energy, Supported by Delivery of Catalytic Fe, Ni, Mo/W, Co, S and Se, Forced Life to Emerge
Nitschke, W., & Russell, M. J. (2009) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-009-9289-3 · Cited by 132
Phylogenomics of type II DNA topoisomerases
Gadelle, D., Filée, J., Buhler, C., & Forterre, P. (2003) · BioEssays · doi:10.1002/bies.10245 · Cited by 126
Self-citation
The origin of viruses
Forterre, P., & Prangishvili, D. A. (2009) · Research in Microbiology · doi:10.1016/j.resmic.2009.07.008 · Cited by 137
Self-citation
On the Origin of Cells and Viruses
Koonin, E. V. (2009) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04992.x · Cited by 127
The Common Ancestor of Archaea and Eukarya Was Not an Archaeon
Forterre, P. (2013) · Archaea · doi:10.1155/2013/372396 · Cited by 119
Self-citation
Manipulation of cellular syntheses and the nature of viruses: The virocell concept
Forterre, P. (2010) · Comptes Rendus Chimie · doi:10.1016/j.crci.2010.06.007 · Cited by 111
Self-citation
The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles
Giulio, M. D. (2003) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-003-2522-6 · Cited by 110
Structure of a bifunctional DNA primase-polymerase
Lipps, G., Weinzierl, A. O., von Scheven, G., Buchen, C., & Cramer, P. (2004) · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · doi:10.1038/nsmb723 · Cited by 109
The major role of viruses in cellular evolution: facts and hypotheses
Forterre, P., & Prangishvili, D. A. (2013) · Current Opinion in Virology · doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2013.06.013 · Cited by 101
Self-citation
To be or not to be alive: How recent discoveries challenge the traditional definitions of viruses and life
Forterre, P. (2016) · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.013 · Cited by 99
Self-citation
The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life
Koonin, E. V. (2007) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-15 · Cited by 97
Comparative genomics of Archaea: how much have we learned in six years, and what's next?
Makarova, K. S., & Koonin, E. V. (2003) · Genome biology · doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-8-115 · Cited by 94
The not so universal tree of life or the place of viruses in the living world
Brüssow, H. (2009) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2009.0036 · Cited by 90
Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent
Bapteste, E. P., Lopez, P., Bouchard, F., Baquero, F., McInerney, J. O., & Burian, R. M. (2012) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1206541109 · Cited by 87
Archaeology of Eukaryotic DNA Replication
Makarova, K. S., & Koonin, E. V. (2013) · Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology · doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a012963 · Cited by 87
Evolution of viruses and cells: do we need a fourth domain of life to explain the origin of eukaryotes?
Moreira, D., & López‐García, P. (2015) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0327 · Cited by 86
Diversity and evolution of B-family DNA polymerases
Kazlauskas, D., Krupovìč, M., Guglielmini, J., Forterre, P., & Venclovas, Č. (2020) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa760 · Cited by 85
Self-citation
The Emergence of Life
Camprubí, E., de Leeuw, J. W., House, C. H., Raulin, F., Russell, M. J., Spang, A., Tirumalai, M. R., & Westall, F. (2019) · Space Science Reviews · doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0624-8 · Cited by 84
The Last Common Ancestor: What's in a name?
Delaye, L., Becerra, A., & Lazcano, A. (2005) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-005-5760-3 · Cited by 83
Modern mRNA Proofreading and Repair: Clues that the Last Universal Common Ancestor Possessed an RNA Genome?
Poole, A. M., & Logan, D. T. (2005) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msi132 · Cited by 83
The TIM Barrel Architecture Facilitated the Early Evolution of Protein-Mediated Metabolism
Goldman, A. D., Beatty, J. T., & Landweber, L. F. (2016) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-015-9722-8 · Cited by 81
Pyrophosphate hydrolysis is an intrinsic and critical step of the DNA synthesis reaction
Kottur, J., & Nair, D. T. (2018) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gky402 · Cited by 78
Biocommunication and natural genome editing
Witzany, G. (2010) · World Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.4331/wjbc.v1.i11.348 · Cited by 75
Viruses and cells intertwined since the dawn of evolution
Durzyńska, J., & Goździcka‐Józefiak, A. (2015) · Virology Journal · doi:10.1186/s12985-015-0400-7 · Cited by 75
Intestinal microbiota composition is altered according to nutritional biorhythms in the leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus)
Mekuchi, M., Asakura, T., Sakata, K., Yamaguchi, T., Teruya, K., & Kikuchi, J. (2018) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197256 · Cited by 73
Twenty years of the pPS10 replicon: insights on the molecular mechanism for the activation of DNA replication in iteron-containing bacterial plasmids
Giraldo, R., & Fernández-Tresguerres, M. E. (2004) · Plasmid · doi:10.1016/j.plasmid.2004.06.002 · Cited by 72
Evolution of Tertiary Structure of Viral RNA Dependent Polymerases
Černý, J., Bolfíková, B. Č., Valdés, J. J., Grubhoffer, L., & Růžek, D. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096070 · Cited by 71
Cellular domains and viral lineages
Forterre, P., Krupovìč, M., & Prangishvili, D. A. (2014) · Trends in Microbiology · doi:10.1016/j.tim.2014.07.004 · Cited by 70
Self-citation
A helix-PXXP-helix peptide with antibacterial activity without cytotoxicity against MDRPA-infected mice
Lee, J., Park, S., Hahm, K., & Park, Y. (2013) · Biomaterials · doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.10.035 · Cited by 70
RNA oligomerization in laboratory analogues of alkaline hydrothermal vent systems
Burcar, B. T., Barge, L. M., Trail, D., Watson, E. B., Russell, M. J., & McGown, L. B. (2015) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2014.1280 · Cited by 68
The Evolution of Reverse Gyrase Suggests a Nonhyperthermophilic Last Universal Common Ancestor
Catchpole, R. J., & Forterre, P. (2019) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msz180 · Cited by 69
Self-citation
Plasmids, viruses and virus-like membrane vesicles from Thermococcales
Soler, N., Gaudin, M., Marguet, E., & Forterre, P. (2011) · Biochemical Society Transactions · doi:10.1042/bst0390036 · Cited by 63
Self-citation
Archaea Carotenoids: Natural Pigments with Unexplored Innovative Potential
Grivard, A., Goubet, I., Filho, L. A. M. D. S. D., Thiéry, V., Chevalier, S., Júnior, R. G. D. O., Aouad, N. E., Almeida, J. R. G. D. S., Sitarek, P., Quintans‐Júnior, L. J., et al. (2022) · Marine Drugs · doi:10.3390/md20080524 · Cited by 64
Macroevolution and the Genome
Gregory, T. R. (2005) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-012301463-4/50013-9 · Cited by 62
Temporal order of evolution of DNA replication systems inferred by comparison of cellular and viral DNA polymerases.
Koonin, E. V. (2006) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/1745-6150-1-39 · Cited by 59
LUCApedia: a database for the study of ancient life
Goldman, A. D., Bernhard, T. M., Dolzhenko, E., & Landweber, L. F. (2012) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gks1217 · Cited by 58
The distribution and impact of viral lineages in domains of life
Nasir, A., Forterre, P., Kim, K. M., & Caetano-AnollÃ©s, G. (2014) · Frontiers in Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00194 · Cited by 58
Self-citation
Two novel families of plasmids from hyperthermophilic archaea encoding new families of replication proteins
Soler, N., Marguet, E., Cortez, D., Desnoues, N., Keller, J., TILBEURGH, H. V., Sezonov, G., & Forterre, P. (2010) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkq236 · Cited by 57
Self-citation
Automated Structural Comparisons Clarify the Phylogeny of the Right-Hand-Shaped Polymerases
Mönttinen, H. A. M., Ravantti, J., Stuart, D. I., & Poranen, M. M. (2014) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msu219 · Cited by 55
The origin of modern terrestrial life
Forterre, P., & Gribaldo, S. (2007) · HFSP journal · doi:10.2976/1.2759103 · Cited by 73
Self-citation
Innovation in gene regulation: The case of chromatin computation
Prohaska, S. J., Stadler, P. F., & Krakauer, D. C. (2010) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.011 · Cited by 54
Evidence for a Xer/dif System for Chromosome Resolution in Archaea
Cortez, D., Quevillon‐Chéruel, S., Gribaldo, S., Desnoues, N., Sezonov, G., Forterre, P., & Serre, M.-C. (2010) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001166 · Cited by 53
Self-citation
The ancestor of the Bacteria domain was a hyperthermophile
Giulio, M. D. (2003) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/s0022-5193(03)00164-4 · Cited by 52
A consensus view of the proteome of the last universal common ancestor
Crapitto, A. J., Campbell, A. E., Harris, A., & Goldman, A. D. (2022) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.8930 · Cited by 52
Evolutionary Patterns in the Sequence and Structure of Transfer RNA: Early Origins of Archaea and Viruses
Sun, F.-J., & Caetano‐Anollés, G. (2008) · PLoS Computational Biology · doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000018 · Cited by 51
An insight into the cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, and mutagenicity of smoked cigarette butt leachate by using Allium cepa as test system
Montalvão, M. F., Sampaio, L. L. G., Gomes, H. H. F., & Malafaia, G. (2018) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · doi:10.1007/s11356-018-3731-2 · Cited by 48
Origin and Evolution of DNA and DNA Replication Machineries
Forterre, P., Filée, J., & Myllykallio, H. (2007) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/0-387-26887-1_10 · Cited by 47
Self-citation
Hydrolytic endonucleolytic ribozyme (HYER) is programmable for sequence-specific DNA cleavage
Liu, Z.-X., Zhang, S., Zhu, H.-Z., Chen, Z.-H., Yang, Y., Li, L.-Q., Lei, Y., Liu, Y., Li, D., Sun, A., et al. (2024) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.adh4859 · Cited by 46
Why Are There So Many Diverse Replication Machineries?
Forterre, P. (2013) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2013.09.032 · Cited by 46
Self-citation
Luca : À la recherche du plus proche ancêtre commun universel
Forterre, P., Gribaldo, S., & Brochier‐Armanet, C. (2005) · médecine/sciences · doi:10.1051/medsci/20052110860 · Cited by 46
Self-citation
Astrovirology: Viruses at Large in the Universe
Berliner, A. J., Mochizuki, T., & Stedman, K. M. (2018) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2017.1649 · Cited by 49
Noncoding RNAs: Persistent Viral Agents as Modular Tools for Cellular Needs
Witzany, G. (2009) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04989.x · Cited by 45
Rhizome of life, catastrophes, sequence exchanges, gene creations, and giant viruses: how microbial genomics challenges Darwin
Merhej, V., & Raoult, D. (2012) · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fcimb.2012.00113 · Cited by 42
DNA topoisomerase VIII: a novel subfamily of type IIB topoisomerases encoded by free or integrated plasmids in Archaea and Bacteria
Gadelle, D., Krupovìč, M., Raymann, K., Mayer, C., & Forterre, P. (2014) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gku568 · Cited by 40
Self-citation
Natural Genome-Editing Competences of Viruses
Witzany, G. (2006) · Acta Biotheoretica · doi:10.1007/s10441-006-9000-7 · Cited by 40
The Origin of Virions and Virocells: The Escape Hypothesis Revisited
Forterre, P., & Krupovìč, M. (2012) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4899-6_3 · Cited by 38
Self-citation
On the Origin of Meiosis in Eukaryotic Evolution: Coevolution of Meiosis and Mitosis from Feeble Beginnings
Egel, R., & Penny, D. (2007) · Genome dynamics and stability · doi:10.1007/7050_2007_036 · Cited by 40
The Viral Origins of Telomeres and Telomerases and their Important Role in Eukaryogenesis and Genome Maintenance
Witzany, G. (2008) · Biosemiotics · doi:10.1007/s12304-008-9018-0 · Cited by 39
Steps Towards the Formation of A Protocell: The Possible Role of Short Peptides
Fishkis, M. (2007) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-007-9111-4 · Cited by 38
Untangling the origin of viruses and their impact on cellular evolution
Nasir, A., Sun, F., Kim, K. M., & Caetano‐Anollés, G. (2015) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.12735 · Cited by 39
DNA polymerase IV - DNA ternary complex 14
Kottur, J., & Nair, D. T. (2017) · Worldwide Protein Data Bank · doi:10.2210/pdb5yv2/pdb · Cited by 35
Resolving the enigma of prebiotic COP bond formation: Prebiotic hydrothermal synthesis of important biological phosphate esters
Maheen, G., Tian, G., Wang, Y., He, C., Shi, Z., Yuan, H.-M., & Feng, S.-H. (2010) · Heteroatom Chemistry · doi:10.1002/hc.20591 · Cited by 31
Darwin's goldmine is still open: variation and selection run the world
Forterre, P. (2012) · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology · doi:10.3389/fcimb.2012.00106 · Cited by 37
Self-citation
Plasmids from Euryarchaeota
Forterre, P., Krupovìč, M., Raymann, K., & Soler, N. (2014) · Microbiology Spectrum · doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.plas-0027-2014 · Cited by 33
Self-citation
Deep-sea vent phage DNA polymerase specifically initiates DNA synthesis in the absence of primers
Zhu, B., Wang, L., Mitsunobu, H., Lu, X., Hernandez, A. J., Yoshida‐Takashima, Y., Nunoura, T., Tabor, S., & Richardson, C. C. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1700280114 · Cited by 30
An Evolutionary Analysis of Lateral Gene Transfer in Thymidylate Synthase Enzymes
Stern, A., Mayrose, I., Penn, O., Shaul, S., Gophna, U., & Pupko, T. (2010) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp104 · Cited by 31
Structural analysis of polarizing indels: an emerging consensus on the root of the tree of life
Valas, R. E., & Bourne, P. E. (2009) · Biology Direct · doi:10.1186/1745-6150-4-30 · Cited by 28
The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA
Forterre, P. (2024) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-024-10186-9 · Cited by 27
Self-citation
Viral origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases
Guglielmini, J., Gaïa, M., Cunha, V. D., Criscuolo, A., Krupovìč, M., & Forterre, P. (2022) · Virus Evolution · doi:10.1093/ve/veac097 · Cited by 26
Self-citation
The Case for an Early Biological Origin of DNA
Poole, A. M., Horinouchi, N., Catchpole, R. J., Si, D., Hibi, M., Tanaka, K., & Ogawa, J. (2014) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-014-9656-6 · Cited by 26
Restriction–Modification Systems as a Barrier for Genetic Manipulation of Staphylococcus aureus
Sadykov, M. R. (2014) · Methods in molecular biology · doi:10.1007/7651_2014_180 · Cited by 26
In Situ Imidazole Activation of Ribonucleotides for Abiotic RNA Oligomerization Reactions
Burcar, B. T., Jawed, M., Shah, H., & McGown, L. B. (2015) · Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres · doi:10.1007/s11084-015-9412-y · Cited by 27
Glacial Periods on Early Earth and Implications for the Evolution of Life
Vincent, W. F., Mueller, D., Van Hove, P., & Howard-Williams, C. (2004) · Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology · doi:10.1007/1-4020-2522-x_29 · Cited by 25
How Viruses Shape the Tree of Life
Villarreal, L. P. (2006) · Future Virology · doi:10.2217/17460794.1.5.587 · Cited by 25
Mechanisms for RNA Capture by ssDNA Viruses: Grand Theft RNA
Stedman, K. M. (2013) · Journal of Molecular Evolution · doi:10.1007/s00239-013-9569-9 · Cited by 24

Authors: Forterre, P.
Affiliations: Université Paris-Sud (FR)
Corresponding author: Forterre, P
ORCID: Forterre, P
Venue: Current Opinion in Microbiology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2002-10-01
Volume: 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 525-532
ISSN: 1369-5274 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5274(02)00360-0
OpenAlex: W1998172162
Cited by: 190
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 11
FWCI: 5.07
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Current Opinion in Microbiology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Keywords: DNA replication proteins, RNA to DNA transition, DNA viruses, last universal common ancestor
MeSH terms: DNA, DNA Replication, Biological Evolution, Models, Genetic, Proteins, RNA, Selection, Genetic

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

The origin of DNA genomes and DNA replication proteins

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks