On the Origin of Biological Chirality Via Natural Beta-decay

Overview

Journal Orig Life

Specialties Biology
Molecular Biology

Date 1977 Apr 1

PMID 896189

Citations 7

Authors

H P NOYES

W A Bonner

J A Tomlin

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Abstract

Experimental evidence that longitudinally polarized electrons having the handedness characteristic of terrestrial beta-decay electrons preferentially remove D-leucine from a racemic mixture, coupled with the probable presence of 14C in pre-biotic molecules, offers a plausible hypothesis for the origin of biomolecular handedness.

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