Potassium Ions are More Effective than Sodium Ions in Salt Induced Peptide Formation

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-117

  Dubina, Michael V ^a   Vyazmin, Sergey Yu ^a   Boitsov, Vitali M ^a   Nikolaev, Eugene N ^b   Popov, Igor A ^b   Kononikhin, Alexey S ^b   Eliseev, Igor E ^a   Natochin, Yuri V ^c  

^a ST PETERSBURG ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Origin of life; Peptide formation; Potassium; Prebiotic; Sodium

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; MONOVALENT CATION; N,N CARBONYLDIIMIDAZOLE; N,N-CARBONYLDIIMIDAZOLE; PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATION; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM; SALT; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMISTRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SYNTHESIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOGENESIS; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMIDAZOLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84878801514     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-013-9326-5     Document Type: Article

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