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ArticleOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life2009

Toward homochiral protocells in noncatalytic peptide systems.

Marcelo Gleiser, Sara Imari Walker

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Article in Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Reactivity of alanylalanine diastereoisomers in neutral and acid aqueous solutions: a versatile stereoselectivity.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2011
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  4. Homochirality and the need for energy.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2010
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2 authors.

Marcelo GleiserDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA. gleiserm@gmail.com
Sara Imari Walker

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The activation-polymerization-epimerization-depolymerization (APED) model of Plasson et al. has recently been proposed as a mechanism for the evolution of homochirality on prebiotic Earth. The dynamics of the APED model in two-dimensional spatially-extended systems is investigated for various realistic reaction parameters. It is found that the APED system allows for the formation of isolated homochiral proto-domains surrounded by a racemate. A diffusive slowdown of the APED network induced, for example, through tidal motion or evaporating pools and lagoons leads to the stabilization of homochiral bounded structures as expected in the first self-assembled protocells.

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Evolution, ChemicalModels, TheoreticalPeptidesStereoisomerismPeptides

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