Life detection using glucose and tetrasaccharide enantiomer pairs

Astrobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-303

  Warmflash, David ^a   Chu, Huanyi ^a   Siefert, Johnathan ^a   Fox, George E ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Enantiomers; Homochirality; Life detection; Mars

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BUFFER; GLUCOSE; PHOSPHATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIFE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; STEREOISOMERISM;

BIOMASS; BUFFERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIFE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHATES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; WATER;

EID: 68249138824     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2008.0292     Document Type: Article

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