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Originally, these DPBB domains might have functioned as protein cofactors that stabilized a ribozyme RNA polymerase and eventually displaced the ribozyme as they acquired key residues required for protein-based polymerase activity.
In fact, it appears likely that the ancestral protein RNA polymerase, at the time of the differentiation of the β-type and β'-type DPBB domains, functioned as an RDRP because DNA probably had not evolved by that stage [ 96 ] . The switch of the ancestral enzyme to the DDRP activity and the emergence of the evolutionary precursor of RDRP might be tentatively linked to one another and associated with the advent of DNA.
Due to the high NADPH production in the PPP, the TCA cycle flux was optimally reduced and functioned only to produce the biosynthetic precursors.
My guess is that Washington is the mirror image of the old Soviet Union, where only the military and space industries functioned.
Hadley and Zelikow asked Clarke and his deputy, Roger Cressey, for a special briefing on the terrorist threat and how Clarke'sTransnationalThreats Directorate and Counterterrorism Security Group functioned.