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Amyloid and the origin of life: self-replicating catalytic amyloids as prebiotic informational and protometabolic entities

A crucial stage in the origin of life was the emergence of the first molecular entity that was able to replicate, transmit information, and evolve on the early Earth. The amyloid world hypothesis posits that in the pre-RNA era, information processing was based on catalytic amyloids. The self-assembl...

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Autor principal: Maury, Carl Peter J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5897472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29550973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-018-2797-9