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dc.contributor.authorHuck, Juergen
dc.contributor.authorKosikova, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorPhilp, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-11T23:36:18Z
dc.date.available2020-08-11T23:36:18Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-04
dc.identifier260441410
dc.identifier56357ab1-8596-4245-8431-1137815b3060
dc.identifier85071786074
dc.identifier000484828900032
dc.identifier.citationHuck , J , Kosikova , T & Philp , D 2019 , ' Compositional persistence in a multicyclic network of synthetic replicators ' , Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol. 141 , no. 35 , pp. 13905-13913 . https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b06697en
dc.identifier.issn0002-7863
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-9198-4302/work/60631225
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20446
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by the award of a Postgraduate Studentship from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K503162/1) to TK and by the University of St Andrews.en
dc.description.abstractThe emergence of collections of simple chemical entities that create self-sustaining reaction networks, embedding replication and catalysis, is cited as a potential mechanism for the appearance on the early Earth of systems that satisfy minimal definitions of life. In this work, a functional reaction network that creates and maintains a set of privileged replicator structures through auto- and cross-catalyzed reaction cycles is created from the pairwise combinations of four reagents. We show that the addition of individual preformed templates to this network, representing instructions to synthesize a specific replicator, induces changes in the output composition of the system that represent a network-level response. Further, we establish through sets of serial transfer experiments that the catalytic connections that exist between the four replicators in this network and the system-level behavior thereby encoded impose limits on the compositional variability that can be induced by repeated exposure to instructional inputs, in the form of preformed templates, to the system. The origin of this persistence is traced through kinetic simulations to the properties and inter-relationships between the critical ternary complexes formed by the auto- and crosscatalytic templates. These results demonstrate that in an environment where there is no continuous selection pressure, the network connectivity, described by the catalytic relationships and system-level interactions between the replicators, is persistent, thereby limiting the ability of this network to adapt and evolve.
dc.format.extent9
dc.format.extent701769
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of the American Chemical Societyen
dc.subjectQD Chemistryen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccQDen
dc.titleCompositional persistence in a multicyclic network of synthetic replicatorsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEPSRCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Chemistryen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. EaSTCHEMen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complexen
dc.identifier.doi10.1021/jacs.9b06697
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2020-08-12
dc.identifier.grantnumberEP/E017851/1en


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