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Polymerization of alanine adenylate in the presence of various clays in their Na form gave increasing degrees of polymerization in the following order: montmorillonite < nontronite < hectorite. With montmorillonite, presaturated with different cations the order was: Mg < Ca < Fe < Al < Na. From all these clays, hectorite was the only one to enable also some polymerization of lysine.
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Paecht-Horowitz, M. The influence of various cations on the catalytic properties of clays. J Mol Evol 11, 101–107 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01733886
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