LEADER 04112nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910782092303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-86226-6 010 $a9786611862268 010 $a3-540-76886-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-540-76886-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000492656 035 $a(EBL)364541 035 $a(OCoLC)288470227 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102670 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102670 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10060799 035 $a(PQKB)10195634 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-540-76886-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364541 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245964 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186226 035 $a(PPN)128125071 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000492656 100 $a20080626d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmino acids and the asymmetry of life$b[electronic resource] $ecaught in the act of formation /$fUwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan 205 $a1st ed. 2008. 210 $aBerlin $cSpringer$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aAdvances in astrobiology and biogeophysics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-540-76885-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTracing Life?s Origin: From Amino Acids to Space Mission ROSETTA -- Stereochemistry for the Study of the Origin of Life -- Minority Report: Life?s Chiral Molecules of Opposite Handedness -- When Crystals Deliver Chirality to Life -- When Parity Falls: The Weak Nuclear Interaction -- Chiral Fields: Light, Magnetism, and Chirality -- Key to the Prebiotic Origin of Amino Acids -- A New Record for Chiral Molecules in Meteorites -- The New Space Race: Chiral Molecules on Comets and on Mars -- Accelerating the Carousel: Amplification Mechanisms. 330 $a"How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and their right-handed mirror images, was violated. The balance is inevitably tipped to the left ? provoking that life?s proteins today exclusively implement the left form of amino acids. Written in an intoxicating style, this book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into stereochemistry, the author addresses the inherent property of amino acids in living organisms, namely the preference for left-handedness. What was the cause for violation of parity of amino acids in the emergence of life on Earth? All the fascinating models proposed by physicists, chemists and biologist are vividly presented including the scientific conflicts. The author describes the attempt to verify any of those models with the chirality module of the ROSETTA mission, a probe built and launched with the mission to land on a comet and analyse whether there are chiral organic compounds that could have been brought to the Earth by cometary impacts. A truly interdisciplinary astrobiology book, "Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life", will fascinate students, researchers and all readers with backgrounds in natural sciences.. With a foreword by Henri B. Kagan. 410 0$aAdvances in astrobiology and biogeophysics. 606 $aExobiology 606 $aLife$xOrigin 606 $aAsymmetry (Chemistry) 615 0$aExobiology. 615 0$aLife$xOrigin. 615 0$aAsymmetry (Chemistry) 676 $a572.65 676 $a576.83 700 $aMeierhenrich$b Uwe$0507262 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782092303321 996 $aAmino acids and the asymmetry of life$9780194 997 $aUNINA