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1. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Autocatalytic sets of proteins

   Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1986

   Kauffman argues that self-sustaining (autocatalytic) sets of peptides may arise almost inevitably once a mix of polypeptides is complex enough, treating it as a percolation problem on random reaction graphs.

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   1. Supported · 71%As the maximum peptide length grows, reactions outnumber polypeptides ever faster, so self-sustaining catalytic subsets arise for any fixed catalysis probability.“Because, as M increases, the ratio of reactions among the possible polypeptides to polypeptides rises rapidly, the existence of such autocatalytic subsets is assured for any fixed probability of catalysis.”