| Title |
The Life Story of Hydrogen Peroxide III: Chirality and Physical Effects at the Dawn of Life
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11084-015-9465-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rowena Ball, John Brindley |
| Abstract |
It is a remarkable observed fact that all life on Earth is homochiral, its biology using exclusively the D-enantiomer of ribose, the sugar moiety of the ribonucleic acids, and the L-enantiomers of the chiral amino acids. Motivated by concurrent work that elaborates further the role of hydrogen peroxide in providing an oscillatory drive for the RNA world (Ball & Brindley 2015a, J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150366, and Ball & Brindley 2015b, this journal, in press), we reappraise the structure and physical properties of this small molecule within this context. Hydrogen peroxide is the smallest, simplest molecule to exist as a pair of non-superimposable mirror images, or enantiomers, a fact which leads us to develop the hypothesis that its enantiospecific interactions with ribonucleic acids led to enantioselective outcomes. We propose a mechanism by which these chiral interactions may have led to amplification of D-ribonucleic acids and extinction of L-ribonucleic acids. |
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| Student > Bachelor | 2 | 8% |
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| Researcher | 2 | 8% |
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| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 1 | 4% |
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