Origin of homochirality on Earth: experimental and theoretical investigations

Chirality is the property of objects, including molecules, which are not superimposable on their materialized mirror image. Chiral molecules are omnipresent in living organisms and the constituents of biological macromolecules (proteins and nucleic acids) are chiral. Amino-acids (constituting protei...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vandenbussche, Sophie
Other Authors: Bartik, Kristin
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2009
Subjects:
RNA
ARN
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210362