Selective Synthesis of Lysine Peptides and the Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis of Catalytically Active Diaminopropionic Acid Peptide Nitriles in Water
作者:Benjamin Thoma、Matthew W. Powner
DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c12497
日期:2023.2.8
Why life encodes specific proteinogenic aminoacids remains an unsolved problem, but a non-enzymatic synthesis that recapitulates biology’s universal strategy of stepwise N-to-C terminal peptide growth may hold the key to this selection. Lysine is an important proteinogenic aminoacid that, despite its essential structural, catalytic, and functional roles in biochemistry, has widely been assumed to