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ArticleNature chemistry2017

Design of multi-phase dynamic chemical networks.

Chenrui Chen, Junjun Tan, Ming-Chien Hsieh, Ting Pan, Jay T Goodwin, Anil K Mehta, Martha A Grover, David G Lynn

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Protometabolism as out-of-equilibrium chemistry.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022
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  8. Prebiotically Plausible Autocatalytic Peptide Amyloids.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2022
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  12. Systems Analysis for Peptide Systems Chemistry.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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  15. Catalytic peptide assemblies.Chemical Society reviews · 2018
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  17. Model-driven engineering of supramolecular buffering by multivalency.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  18. Multistep Conformation Selection in Amyloid Assembly.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Chenrui ChenDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Junjun TanDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Ming-Chien HsiehSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
Ting PanDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.
Jay T GoodwinDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8603-9990
Anil K MehtaDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9867-151X
Martha A GroverSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
David G LynnDepartments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Template-directed polymerization reactions enable the accurate storage and processing of nature's biopolymer information. This mutualistic relationship of nucleic acids and proteins, a network known as life's central dogma, is now marvellously complex, and the progressive steps necessary for creating the initial sequence and chain-length-specific polymer templates are lost to time. Here we design and construct dynamic polymerization networks that exploit metastable prion cross-β phases. Mixed-phase environments have been used for constructing synthetic polymers, but these dynamic phases emerge naturally from the growing peptide oligomers and create environments suitable both to nucleate assembly and select for ordered templates. The resulting templates direct the amplification of a phase containing only chain-length-specific peptide-like oligomers. Such multi-phase biopolymer dynamics reveal pathways for the emergence, self-selection and amplification of chain-length- and possibly sequence-specific biopolymers.

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AmyloidOligopeptidesPolymerizationProtein Conformation, beta-StrandProtein MultimerizationProteinsAmyloidOligopeptidesProteins

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PMID28754943

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