Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987orli...17..367b&link_type=abstract
Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, Volume 17, Issue 3-4, pp. 367-379
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Oligopeptides essential to primitive cells could not be obtained just by raising the background noise of organic compounds produced by a prebiotic chemistry working at random. Selection pathways were required. Experimental evidence is given for selective condensation of amino acids in water as well as for selective resistance to degradation. It is shown that N-carboxyanhydrides are good candidates for chemical selection in water. They are formed when active esters of amino acids are left in the presence of bicarbonate ions or when N,N'-carbonyldiimidazole is used as condensing agent. Polymerization of a mixture of proteinaceous and non-proteinaceous amino acids leads to an enrichment in the proteinaceous ones plusα-aminobutyric acid. Selective resistance toward degradation ofβ-pleated sheet conformation is used to exemplify a possible accumulation of homochiral sequences made of hydrophilic and strong hydrophobic residues. Amino acids with branched aliphatic side-chains are selected but those having short linear aliphatic side-chains such asα-aminobutyric acid or norvaline are not.
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