Catalysing mirror life

Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology
Marleen Renders, Vitor B Pinheiro

Abstract

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.

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