Amyloid fibrils : mutations make enzyme polymerize.
Monomers polymerize rapidly and cooperatively.
The spontaneous association of subunits of and -tubulin gives the dimers that polymerize into microtubules.
Although aspartic acid may be polymerized in the molten state by single heating, the reaction temperature in the molten urea was lower than that of self-polymerization.
In this case also, the disordered part of the subunit is directly involved in binding at the interfaces, preventing the subunits from spontaneously polymerizing.
It is our hypothesis that organic molecules are polymerized in the smectite interlayers during reaction to illite.
Previous studies of this system have generally observed -alanine to decarboxylate, and glycine to either decarboxylate or polymerize.
Using these substrates will reduce the rate enhancement required of the ribozyme to efficiently polymerize the monomers, which should simplify it.
