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What do you mean by "looping multiple-step reaction"? If prions are "A'(A)->A'", do you mean "A'(B)->B', B'(A)->A'"? (Where A/A' are different forms of the sam
by gilleain 11y ago
What do you mean by "looping multiple-step reaction"? If prions are "A'(A)->A'", do you mean "A'(B)->B', B'(A)->A'"?
(Where A/A' are different forms of the same structure and A(B)->C means A acts on B to make C).
- Joof 11y agoYeah. Probably wouldn't work / there would be some weird equilibrium.
- gilleain 11y agoWell, I don't know of any protein folding examples, but it seems a lot like an "autocatalytic cycle" which is an interesting part of origin-of-life theories. Stuart Kauffman wrote some things about this, but here is a counterpoint from Leslie E Orgel: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060018 http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...
- Joof 11y agoMakes logical sense that it would be a part of life (once you can synthesize a few things from a given one thing you can build all sorts of logical structures...), but I see there are tons of biological probabilities at play that I don't understand. How did school manage to make biology so boring? They did it with math too, so I shouldn't be surprised, but damn. Would love resources on an intro to bio for the CS folk. I'm sure there are some good ones out there.
- brians 11y agoYes. We call these "cells". Typically there are many more than two elements of the self-reinforcing complex.
- gilleain 11y agoMaybe it wasn't clear. The transformation A(B) is one where "A" catalyses a change in fold of "B".
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- nitrogen 11y agoIt sounds like a biological multiquine. http://mamememo.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1 http://mamememo.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1 http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=107115 http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=107115