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I believe the most unsettling image currently extant in popular culture is that of Bob Dole under the influence of Viagra.
Although the mines are superseded by those in South America and South Africa, the art of cutting and polishing is still extant in Gujarat.
To determine the entire extant of the N1pC/P60 family we initiated PSI-BLAST [ 28] searches of the non-redundant database (expect (E)-value for inclusion in threshold = 0.01, iterated to convergence) with a number of starting points, such as the catalytic domains of B. subtilis LytF (C1wE) and LytE (C1wF), L. monocytogenes P60 and P45 and E. coli N1pC.
The ancestral versions of these domains would not have the adaptations for specific roles possessed by their descendant forms, such as those in extant DDRP or RDRP, and probably functioned as generic RNA-binding and protein-protein interaction domains, with the specificity conferred by catalytic RNA molecules.
Although the major events in the evolution of polymerases occurred at very early stages of evolution and LUCA already had an advanced DDRP resembling the extant forms, subsequent lineage-specific elaborations of considerable magnitude have occurred.