Exponential self-replication enabled through a fibre elongation/breakage mechanism

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Colomb Delsuc, Mathieu ^a   Mattia, Elio ^a   Sadownik, Jan W ^a   Otto, Sijbren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; PEPTIDE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; COMBINATORIAL LIBRARY; COVALENT BOND; DIMERIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY;

MACROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDES;

EID: 84935914617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8427     Document Type: Article

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