Artigo Revisado por pares

The design of self-replicating helical peptides

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 11; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0959-440x(00)00233-5

ISSN

1879-033X

Autores

R. C. Issac,

Tópico(s)

Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Resumo

The self-assembly of helical peptides and information transfer through autocatalysis and cross-catalysis are the foundation of peptide-based molecular evolution models. Many fundamental properties of living systems, such as environmental sensitivity, chiroselectivity, cross-catalysis, dynamic error correction and conditional selection, are exhibited by various self-replicating peptide systems. Recently, advances have been made in the design of peptide systems with autocatalytic and cross-catalytic properties.

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