| Literature DB >> 18302005 |
V I Burkov1, L A Goncharova, G A Gusev, K Kobayashi, E V Moiseenko, N G Poluhina, T Saito, V A Tsarev, Jianhua Xu, Guobin Zhang.
Abstract
The first results of the RAdiation Mechanism of Biomolecular ASymmetry (RAMBAS) experiment on investigation of the radiation mechanism of the influence on chiral molecules, as a factor leading to origination of chiral asymmetry are presented. It was found that irradiation of simple achiral materials by a flux of electrons from radioactive source initiated the synthesis of amino acids, and it resulted in asymmetric degradation and chiral asymmetry in a racemic mixture of amino acids. The results obtained can be important for the solution of the origin-of-life and biological homochirality problems.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18302005 DOI： 10.1007/s11084-008-9127-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Orig Life Evol Biosph ISSN： 0169-6149 Impact factor: 1.950