First Results of the RAMBAS Experiment on Investigation of the Radiation Mechanism of Chiral Influence

V I Burkov,G A Gusev,Guobin Zhang,E V Moiseenko,V A Tsarev,Jianhua Xu,L A Goncharova,K Kobayashi,N G Poluhina,T Saito

doi:10.1007/s11084-008-9127-4

First Results of the RAMBAS Experiment on Investigation of the Radiation Mechanism of Chiral Influence

V I Burkov, G A Gusev + Show 8 more

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-008-9127-4

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Journal: Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere	Publication Date: Feb 27, 2008
Citations: 22

Affiliation: P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Institute of High Energy Physics, Yokohama National University

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The first results of the RAdiation Mechanism of Biomolecular ASymmetry (RAMBAS) experiment on investigation of the radiation mechanism of the influence on chiral molecules, as a factor leading to origination of chiral asymmetry are presented. It was found that irradiation of simple achiral materials by a flux of electrons from radioactive source initiated the synthesis of amino acids, and it resulted in asymmetric degradation and chiral asymmetry in a racemic mixture of amino acids. The results obtained can be important for the solution of the origin-of-life and biological homochirality problems.

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