Abstract
It is suggested that the earliest coding polynucleotides contained a high proportion of alternating sequences of purines and pyrimidines, and that these sequences coded for polypeptides in which hydrophobic and hydrophylic amino acids alternated. Structural properties of such alternating polypeptides are discussed.
The material covered in this paper was presented previously in the Israel Journal of Chemistry, 10 (1972), pp. 287–292. Dedicated to the Memory of Gerhard M. J. Schmidt.
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Orgel, L.E. (1974). A Possible Step in the Origin of the Genetic Code. In: Oró, J., Miller, S.L., Ponnamperuma, C., Young, R.S. (eds) Cosmochemical Evolution and the Origins of Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2282-8_37
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