D-Amino Acids in Living Higher Organisms
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere
- Vol. 32 (2), 103-127
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1016031014871
Abstract
The homochirality of biological amino acids (L-amino acids) andof the RNA/DNA backbone (D-ribose) might have become establishedbefore the origin of life. It has been considered that D-aminoacids and...Keywords
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