Fig. 4: Effect of the model parameters on the template-dependent replication of a ssRNA molecule adsorbed to a clay surface (comp.II).
From: Polymerization and replication of primordial RNA induced by clay-water interface dynamics
A Dependence of the mean of maximum R polymer lengths with average interaction parameters α0 and β0 at three different amplitude fractions f (being Aα = fα0 and Aβ = fβ0). Tα = Tβ = 2500. B Dependence of the maximum length distribution of C polymers (complementary, green) and R polymers (replicates, purple) on the oscillation period T = Tα = Tβ. α0 = 0.8, Aα = 0.5 and β0 = 6, Aβ = 5.9. The mean time to polymerize a 20-nt long ssRNA by template-dependent polymerization 〈t20〉 is displayed with 25th-75th percentiles (see Supplementary Fig. S6). C Dependence of the maximum length distribution of R polymers on the phosphodiester bond hydrolysis probability per time step Phyd. α0 = 0.8, Aα = 0.5 and β0 = 6, Aβ = 5.9, T = Tα = Tβ = 2500. Every simulation started with a random 20 nt-long ssRNA molecule, and was repeated 20 times in (A), 104 times in (B) and 500 times in (C).
