The Bootstrap Model of Prebiotic Networks of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

It is not known how life arose from prebiotic physical chemistry. How did fruitful cell-like associations emerge from the two polymer types—informational (nucleic acids, xNAs = DNA or RNA) and functional (proteins)? Our model shows how functional networks could bootstrap from random sequence-indepen...

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Published in:	Life
Main Authors:	Thomas Farquharson, Luca Agozzino, Ken Dill
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2022-05-01
Subjects:	origins of life DNA-protein networks protocells
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/5/724