Dual role of hydrophobic racemic thioesters of α-amino acids in the generation of isotactic peptides and co-peptides in water; implications for the origin of homochirality

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-63

  Illos, Roni A ^a   Clodic, Gilles ^b   Bolbach, Gerard ^b   Weissbuch, Isabelle ^a   Lahav, Meir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Desymmetrization of racemic isotactic oligopeptides; Homochiral oligopeptides; MALDI TOF MS; Origin of homochirality of peptides; Racemic amino acid thioesters

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BICARBONATE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONDENSATION; DEUTERIUM; ESTER; GENERATION TIME; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDE; POLYMERIZATION;

AMINO ACID; ESTER; PEPTIDE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOGENESIS; ESTERS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; WATER;

EID: 77949377853     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-009-9186-1     Document Type: Article

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