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. 1988 Aug;85(16):5923–5926. doi: 10.1073/pnas.85.16.5923

Chemical oscillations in closed macromolecular systems.

E Di Cera 1, P E Phillipson 1, J Wyman 1
PMCID: PMC281877  PMID: 3413066

Abstract

A cycle of irreversible, first-order, autocatalytic reactions among different states of a polyfunctional macromolecule, subject to the conservation of mass, can display stable chemical oscillations. This introduces a class of nonlinear dynamic models for energy transduction in closed macromolecular systems.

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