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A two-substrate Michaelis-Menten model for the growth of self-replicating polymers
1Departamento de Química Fundamental, U.F.Pe., Cidade Universitária, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|October 7, 1987
Abstract:
A two-substrate Michaelis-Menten model is proposed for the growth of autocatalytic self-replicating polymers. Selective growth depends on the existence of two complementary pairs of monomers. Discrimination among sequences results from different products of binding constants, KCGnKAUm. The results support an earlier renormalization group treatment (Ferreira & Tsallis, 1985).