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Certain types of clays may have played a catalytic part in the evolution of polypeptides. The active forms of ammo-acids, concentrated by adsorption on the clay particle surface, are shown to condense to form polypeptides of different but discrete sizes.
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PAECHT-HOROWITZ, M., BERGER, J. & KATCHALSKY, A. Prebiotic Synthesis of Polypeptides by Heterogeneous Polycondensation of Amino-acid Adenylates. Nature 228, 636–639 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228636a0
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