A self-replicating peptide

Details A self-replicating peptide A self-replicating peptide

Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996natur.382..525l&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 382, Issue 6591, pp. 525-528 (1996).

Physics

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Scientific paper

THE production of amino acids and their condensation to polypeptides under plausibly prebiotic conditions have long been known1,2. But despite the central importance of molecular self-replication in the origin of life, the feasibility of peptide self-replication has not been established experimentally3-6. Here we report an example of a self-replicating peptide. We show that a 32-residue α-helical peptide based on the leucine-zipper domain of the yeast transcription factor GCN4 can act autocatalytically in templating its own synthesis by accelerating the thioester-promoted amide-bond condensation of 15- and 17-residue fragments in neutral, dilute aqueous solutions. The self-replication process displays parabolic growth pattern with the initial rates of product formation correlating with the square-root of initial template concentration.

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