That would be a protein that catalyses its own creation from parts (amino acids) rather than prions which catalyse a change in shape. There is a paper roughly

That would be a protein that catalyses its own creation from parts (amino acids) rather than prions which catalyse a change in shape. There is a paper roughly in this area (polyphosphates and peptides in an autocatalytic cycle) here : http://cosmology.com/Abiogenesis100.html http://cosmology.com/Abiogenesis100.html