| 期刊全称 | Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life | | 期刊简称 | Caught in the Act of | | 影响因子2023 | Uwe Meierhenrich | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | A thrilling story built around the question "How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?".Topic of high public and interdisciplinary interest.Written by a | | 学科分类 | Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | ."How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and their right-handed mirror images, was violated. The balance was inevitably tipped to the left – as a result of which life‘s proteins today exclusively implement the left form of amino acids. ..Written in an engaging style, this book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction to stereochemistry, the author addresses the inherent property of amino acids in living organisms, namely the preference for left-handedness. What was the cause for the violation of parity of amino acids in the emergence of life on Earth? All the fascinating models proposed by physicists, chemists and biologist are vividly presented including the scientific conflicts. The author describes the attempt to verify any of those models with the chirality module of the ROSETTA mission, a probe built and launched wi | | Pindex | Book 2008 |
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