Self-Propagating β-sheet polypeptide structures as prebiotic informational molecular entities: The amyloid world

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-150

  Maury, C P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

sheet conformation; Amyloid; Memory; Molecular evolution; Origin of life; Prebiotic chemistry; Prions; Protein world; Replication

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTEIN; RNA; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

AMYLOID; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMYLOID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 68049114613     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-009-9165-6     Document Type: Article

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