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The Thermal Copolymerization of Amino Acids Common to Protein1

Sidney W. Fox, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1960 - 
- Vol. 82, Iss: 14, pp 3745-3751
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This article is published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.The article was published on 1960-07-01. It has received 231 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Proteinoid & Amino acid.

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Before enzymes and templates: theory of surface metabolism.

TL;DR: It is proposed here that, at an early stage of evolution, there are precursor organisms drastically different from anything the authors know, and life at this early stage is autotrophic and consists of an autocatalytic metabolism confined to an essentially twodimensional monomolecular organic layer.
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Peptides and the origin of life1

TL;DR: The salt-induced peptide formation reaction in connection with adsorption processes on clay minerals would appear to be the simplest and most universal mechanism known to date for chemical peptide evolution.
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Origins of building blocks of life: A review

TL;DR: This review of reported experimental and theoretical findings for prebiotic chemistry relevant to this topic summary indicates that life's origin did not occur at a single setting; rather, it required highly diverse and dynamic environments that were connected with each other to allow intra-transportation of reaction products and reactants through fluid circulation.
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Thermal synthesis of natural amino-acids from a postulated primitive terrestrial atmosphere.

TL;DR: Thermal Synthesis of Natural Amino-Acids from a Postulated Primitive Terrestrial Atmosphere and its Applications in Food Synthesis and Biochemistry.