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On the emergence of homochirality and life itself

Many of life’s molecules including proteins are built from chiral building blocks. What drove homochiral building block selection? Simulations on demi-chiral proteins containing equal numbers of d- and l-amino acids show that they possess many modern homochiral protein properties. They have the same...

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Autores principales: Skolnick, Jeffrey, Gao, Mu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34219990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio20210002