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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Chemistry of Homocysteine Thiolactone in A Prebiotic Perspective.

Ibrahim Shalayel, Yannick Vallée

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ibrahim ShalayelCNRS, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Campus, F-38058 Grenoble, France. ibrahim.shalayel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-9368-3565
Yannick ValléeCNRS, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Campus, F-38058 Grenoble, France. yannick.vallee@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-8412-8989

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-15-IDEX-02
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homocysteine is a non-proteinogenic sulfur-containing amino acid. Like cysteine, it can form disulfide bridges and complex metallic cations. It is also closely related to methionine, the first amino acid in the synthesis of all contemporary proteins. Furthermore, its cyclized form, a five-membered ring thiolactone, is stable in acidic and neutral water. Here, we demonstrate that this thiolactone may have been formed in the primitive ocean directly from the Strecker precursor of homocysteine, an aminonitrile. Even though it is poorly reactive, this thiolactone may be open by some amines, yielding amides which, in turn, could be the precursors of longer peptides.

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amino acidshomocysteineorigin of lifeprebiotic chemistrythioester world

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PMID31100840
PMCPMC6616635

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