Relevance to Origin of Life

This problem has long fascinated tho.se interested in the molecular basis of the origin of life (e.g,. Refs. [2-46], [2-47]). There are in fact two questions. One is why do all the amino acids in a protein have the same L-configuration, or why do all the components of a nucleic acid, that is, all its nucleotides, have the 

Although Pasteur believed that there is a sharp gap between vital and nonliving processes, he attributed the asymmetry of living matter to the asymmetry of the structure of the universe and not to a vital force. Pasteur himself wrote that he was inclined to think that life, as it appears to us, must be a product of the dissymmetry of the universe (see Ref. [2-48]). 

Recently, the first enzymatically active o-protein has been synthesized 

Ibuprofen is a lucky case in which the twin of the enantiomer that provides the curing is converted to the beneficial version by the body. 

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