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Surveying the sequence diversity of model prebiotic peptides by mass spectrometry.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Sept 2017
Forsythe Jay G, Petrov Anton S, Millar W Calvin, Yu Sheng-Sheng, Krishnamurthy Ramanarayanan, Grover Martha A, Hud Nicholas V, Fernández Facundo M
Abstract excerpt
The rise of peptides with secondary structures and functions would have been a key step in the chemical evolution which led to life. As with modern biology, amino acid sequence would have been a primary determinant of peptide structure and activity in an origins-of-life scenario. It is a commonly held hypothesis that unique functional sequences would have emerged from a diverse soup of proto-peptides, yet there...
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