Self-replication process of the RNA ligase ribozyme molecules was investigated by using the modified RNA ligase ribozyme under alternating temperature condition that enhances turnover rate of the RNA ligation reaction. In our experiment, the RNA ligase ribozyme system mainly undergoes a cross-catalytic replication process, in which two ribozymes catalyze each other's synthesis from a total of four RNA substrates under alternating temperature condition, resulting in time-dependent accumulation of additional copies of the starting ribozymes in a reaction mixture. The present study demonstrates that cross-catalytic replication in nucleic acids system can be efficiently devised under the alternating temperature condition.

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