Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 14 April 1972:
Vol. 176. no. 4031, pp. 172 - 173
DOI: 10.1126/science.176.4031.172
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

Polyamino Acids: Preparation from Reported Proportions of "Prebiotic" and Extraterrestrial Amino Acids

Mary A. Saunders 1 and Duane L. Rohlfing 1

1 Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208

Polyamino acids were thermally prepared from the proportions of amino acids identified (sometimes after hydrolysis) among the products of simulated prebiotic syntheses and (after hydrolysis) in lunar and meteoritic samples. Inferences are made concerning the composition of prebiotic protein and the possible extraterrestrial existence of protein-like polymers.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Thermal polyamino acids: synthesis at less than 100 degrees C.
D. Rohlfing (1976)
Science 193, 68-70
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)