title: A two-substrate Michaelis-Menten model for the growth of self-replicating polymers.
abstract: A two-substrate Michaelis-Menten model is proposed for the growth of autocatalytic self-replicating polymers. Selective growth depends on the existence of two complementary pairs of monomers. Discrimination among sequences results from different products of binding constants, KCGnKAUm. The results support an earlier renormalization group treatment (Ferreira & Tsallis, 1985).
mesh_terms: D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D007700:Kinetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011108:Polymers / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D012313:RNA / Q000096:biosynthesis
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA