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Catalysing Mirror Life
Author(s) -
Renders Marleen,
Pinheiro Vitor B.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chembiochem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.05
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1439-7633
pISSN - 1439-4227
DOI - 10.1002/cbic.201500010
Subject(s) - homochirality , nucleic acid , rna , abiogenesis , rna world hypothesis , dna , computational biology , biology , synthetic biology , genetics , chemistry , gene , amino acid , ribozyme
Origin of life: Although current life is homochiral (with D nucleic acids), little is known about how homochirality emerged or even if it was a necessary step. The isolation of cross‐chiral nucleic acid ligases demonstrate that an early heterochiral life could have been possible.