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I would bet that all the extant written material from all human civilizations for everything before A.D. 1000 could probably fit on a single DVD disk.
The α subunit further stabilizes this cleft, whereas the ω subunit interacts with the β' subunit [ 7 ] . Given their ubiquitous presence in all cellular life forms and high level of sequence conservation, it seems evident that the core subunits of this complex RNA synthesis machine were already present in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of the extant cellular life forms and performed functions mechanistically similar to those of modern DDRP.
Our analysis of the sequences of GshAs and GshBs suggests that the evolutionary history of these proteins is more complex than expected on the basis of the distribution of GSH in extant organisms.
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.
We present evidence that a representative of this domain was present in the last common ancestor of all extant life forms.