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Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in heterocatalytically coupled enantioselective replicators
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Hypercycles proposed as a chemical basis for the selection of biological replicators may lead to homochirality when fed from achiral resources.
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Models for enantioselective hypercyclic replicators replace Frank inhibition with mutual cross-catalytic processes.
“Models for enantioselective hypercyclic replicators were recently disclosed in which the inhibition reaction in the Frank model has been replaced by mutual cross-catalytic processes occurring between families of coupled replicators.350,351”
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- Authors
- Ribó, J. M., Crusats, J., El-Hachemi, Z., Moyano, A., & Hochberg, D.
- Affiliations
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ES)
- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Ribó, Josep M.
- Hochberg, David
- Venue
- Chemical Science
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 763-769
- ISSN
- 2041-6520 (ISSN-L)
- 2041-6539
- PMC
- PMC5299794
- OpenAlex
- W2520922898
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 9
- FWCI
- 2.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Chemical Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Generalitat de Catalunya (2014SGR10)
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CTQ2013-47401-C2-1/2-P)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Keywords
- origin of homochirality, origin of life
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