Life's chirality from prebiotic environments
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Life's Chirality From Prebiotic Environments
A key open question in the study of life is the origin of biomolecular homochirality: almost every life-form on Earth has exclusively levorotary amino acids and dextrorotary sugars. Will the same handedness be preferred if life is found elsewhere? We review some of the pertinent literature and discuss recent results suggesting that life’s homochirality resulted from sequential chiral symmetry b...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Astrobiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1473-5504,1475-3006
DOI: 10.1017/s1473550412000377