Biased versus unbiased randomness in homo-polymers and copolymers of amino acids in the prebiotic world

Acta Biochimica Polonica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 543-547

  Mosqueira, Fernando G ^a   Negron, Alicia ^a   Ramos, Sergio ^a   Polanco, Carlos ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES QUÍMICAS   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Homo peptides; Lysine; Markov chain; Polarity of amino acids; Prebiotic co polypeptides; Prebiotic homo polymerization of amino acids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873712485     PISSN: 0001527X     EISSN: 1734154X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18388/abp.2012_2089     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bruckner V, Kovács J Dénes G (1953) Structure of poly-D-glutamic acid isolated from capsulated strains of B. Anthracis. Nature 172: 508-508.
2. Dickerson RE, Geis I (1969) The Structure and Action of Proteins pp 16-19. Harper & Row Publishers, New York.
3. Fox SW, Melius P, Nakashima T (1977) N-Terminal pyroglutamyl residues in proteins and thermal peptides. Matsubara H, Yamanaka T, eds. Proc. of the Symp. on Evolution of Protein Molecules, pp 111-120. Japan Scientific Societies Press.
4. Harada K (1959) Thermal homopolymerization of lysine and copolymerization with neutral and acidic amino acids. Bull Chem Soc Japan 32: 1007-1008.
5. Harada K, Fox SW (1965) Charaterization of thermal polymers of neutral a-amino acids with dicarboxylic amino acids or lysine. Arch Biochem Biophys 109: 49-56.
6. Harada K, Matsuyama M, Kokufuta E (1978) The aqueous thermal polycondensation of asparagines and isoasparagine and the structure of polyaspartic acid. Polymer Bull 1: 177-180.
7. Hartmann J, Brand MC, Dose K (1981) Formation of specific amino acid sequences during thermal polymerization of amino acids. Bio-Systems 13: 141-147.
8. Katime IA (1994) Química Física Macromolecular, pp 190-191. Servicio Editorial, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao (Spain).
9. Kovács J, Nagy, H (1961) Polypeptide formation from asparagines under hypothetically primitive conditions. Nature 190: 531-532.
10. Kovács J, Kovacs HN, Könyves I, Császár J, Vajda T, Mix, H. (1961) Chemical studies of polyaspartic acids. J. Org Chem 261: 084-1091.
11. Meggy AB (1956) Glycine peptides. Part II. The heat and entropy of formation of the peptide bond in polyglycine. J Chem Soc 1444-1454.
12. Moran PAP (1984) An Introduction to Probability Theory, pp 108-111. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
13. Mosqueira FG, Ramos-Bernal S, Negron-Mendoza A (2000) A simple model of the thermal prebiotic oligomerization of amino acids. Bio-Systems 57: 67-73.
14. Mosqueira FG, Ramos-Bernal S, Negron-Mendoza, A (2002) Biased polymers in the origin of life. Biosystems 65: 99-103.
15. Mosqueira FG, Ramos-Bernal S, Negron-Mendoza A (2008) Prebiotic thermal polymerization of crystals of amino acids via the diketopiperazine reaction. BioSystems 91: 195-200.
16. Munegumi T, Tanikawa N, Mita H, Harada K (1994) Peptide formation by heating aqueous solution containing asparagine. Viva Origino 22: 111-125.
17. Nakashima T, Jungck JR, Fox SW, Lederer E, Das BC (1977) A Test for Randomness in Peptides Isolated from a Thermal Polyamino Acid. Int. J. Quant. Chem: Quant. Biol. Symp. 4: 65-72.
18. Oro J, Guidry CL (1961) Direct synthesis of polypeptides 1. Polycondensation of glycine in aqueous ammonia. Arch Biochem Biophys 93: 166-171.