Towards Prebiotic Catalytic Amyloids Using High Throughput Screening

Short peptides self-assemble to produce catalytic amyloids

(2014) Caroline M. Rufo et al.   Nature Chemistry

The RNA World: molecular cooperation at the origins of life

(2014) Paul G. Higgs et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

On the Possible Amyloid Origin of Protein Folds

(2012) Jason Greenwald et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Perturbation of the Stability of Amyloid Fibrils through Alteration of Electrostatic Interactions

(2011) Sarah L. Shammas et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Self-assembly and Self-replication of Short Amphiphilic β-sheet Peptides

(2011) Valery Bourbo et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

A Thermodynamic Basis for Prebiotic Amino Acid Synthesis and the Nature of the First Genetic Code

(2009) Paul G. Higgs et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Self-Propagating β-Sheet Polypeptide Structures as Prebiotic Informational Molecular Entities: The Amyloid World

(2009) C. P. J. Maury   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules

(2009) S. K. Maji et al.   SCIENCE