Amino acids, amphiphiles, chiral molecular

Figure 16. Evolution of molecular and organismic chirality (top to bottom) l- and o-amino acid enantiomers [31] valinomycin K -ion carrier [35] as a highly sophisticated outcome of independent amphiphilic bichirality protein developments transitions from hetero- to homochirality via selection of enantiomers in building up suprachiral structures of RNAs and their self-replication [34] development of structural and functional asymmetric organismic bichirality on the basis of molecular homochirality [7 a, 17, 18, 31].

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