On the reported optical activity of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite

Details On the reported optical activity of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite On the reported optical activity of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite

Feb 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983natur.301..494b&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 301, Feb. 10, 1983, p. 494-496; Reply p. 496, 497. Research supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NASA.

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Amino Acids, Meteoritic Composition, Abundance, Contamination, Optical Activity, Meteorites, Optical Properties, Amino Acids, Murcheson Meteorite, Data, Contamination, Analysis, Organic Compounds, Abundance, Procedure, Techniques, Models, Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry

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It is shown that the explanation of terrestrial contamination of the Murchison meteorite is consistent with the analysis of extracts from the meteorite reported by Engel and Nagy (EN) (1982) and is much more probable than their suggestion that the excess of L-enantiomers for several protein amino acids is due to asymmetric synthesis or decomposition. The low abundance of serine and threonine reported by EN may be due to their decomposition during the derivatization procedure, and the absence of methionine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine can be attributed to various causes. The amount of contamination in EN's extracts are estimated from a mass balance of the amino acid enantiomers, and it is found that the amino acids in the HCl could be due entirely to contamination while in the water extract the amount of contamination ranges from about 40 to 97 percent, depending on the amino acid. The argument that contaminants were preferentially extracted by EN's procedure cannot account for the failure to detect methionine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine.

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