Reply to Bada: The relevance of meteoritic alpha-methyl amino acids to prebiotic homochirality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages

  Breslow, Ronald ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA METHYL AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PREBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGENESIS; CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMER; HEATING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 69449096975     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907800106     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Bada J (2009) Enantiomeric excesses in the Murchison meteorite and the origin of homochirality in terrestrial biology. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 10.1073/pnas.0906490106.
2. Breslow R, Cheng Z-L (2009) On the origin of terrestrial homochirality for nucleosides and amino acids. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106: 9144-9146.