Kinetic analysis of artificial peptide self-replication. Part I: The homochiral case

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-200

  Rivera Islas, Jesús ^a   Pimienta, Véronique ^b   Micheau, Jean Claude ^b   Buhse, Thomas ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Mexico)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Computational modeling; Kinetic analysis; Molecular evolution; Peptide; Self replication; Template directed catalysis

Indexed keywords

DIMER; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHIRALITY; DYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0242501566     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4622(02)00248-X     Document Type: Article

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