Massimo Di Giulio

23 papers Journal 23
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
The archaeal genetic code with all UAG codons as pyrrolysine might be an ancestral and not derived trait: the non-monophyletic origin of the genetic code.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2025 J jnl
How many and which types of primary cells (domains of life) emerged from LUCA, identified employing different genetic codes.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2025 J jnl
The existence of the two domains of life, Bacteria and Archaea, would in itself imply that LUCA and the ancestors of these domains were progenotes.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2025 J jnl
The genetic code is not universal.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2025 J jnl
The origins of ATP synthases, the identity of LUCA, and the progenote.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2024 J jnl
The polyphyletic origins of glycyl-tRNA synthetase and lysyl-tRNA synthetase and their implications.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2024 J jnl
The time of appearance of the genetic code.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2024 J jnl
Theories of the origin of the genetic code: Strong corroboration for the coevolution theory.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2023 J jnl
The absence of the evolutionary state of the Prokaryote would imply a polyphyletic origin of proteins and that LUCA, the ancestor of bacteria and that of archaea were progenotes.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2023 J jnl
The error minimization of the genetic code would have been determined by natural selection and not by a neutral evolution.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2022 J jnl
Arguments against the stereochemical theory of the origin of the genetic code.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2022 J jnl
The RNase P, LUCA, the ancestors of the life domains, the progenote, and the tree of life.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2022 J jnl
The genetic code is very close to a global optimum in a model of its origin taking into account both the partition energy of amino acids and their biosynthetic relationships.
Biosyst.
Franco Caldararo, Massimo Di Giulio
2022 J jnl
The origins of the cell membrane, the progenote, and the universal ancestor (LUCA).
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2021 J jnl
Errors of the ancestral translation, LUCA, and nature of its direct descendants.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2021 J jnl
The evolutionary stages of the complexity of biological catalysts mark and clarify the phases of the origin of the genetic code: A model for the origin of the reading frame with codons from proto-mRNAs with different frames.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2021 J jnl
The late appearance of DNA, the nature of the LUCA and ancestors of the domains of life.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2021 J jnl
The phylogenetic distribution of the cell division system would not imply a cellular LUCA but a progenotic LUCA.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2020 J jnl
LUCA as well as the ancestors of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes were progenotes: Inference from the distribution and diversity of the reading mechanism of the AUA and AUG codons in the domains of life.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2020 J jnl
The phylogenetic distribution of the glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase and Glu-tRNA
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2019 J jnl
The key role of the elongation factors in the origin of the organization of the genetic code.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2018 J jnl
A discriminative test among the different theories proposed to explain the origin of the genetic code: The coevolution theory finds additional support.
Biosyst.
Massimo Di Giulio
2007 J jnl
The first lines of divergence in the Bacteria domain were the hyperthermophilic organisms, the Thermotogales and the Aquificales, and not the mesophilic Planctomycetales.
Biosyst.
Sacha Barion, Marco Franchi, Enzo Gallori, Massimo Di Giulio