Sequential Amplification of Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excess by Conglomerate and Racemic Compound: Plausible Prebiotic Route Towards Homochirality

Sharma, A.

doi:10.1007/s11084-023-09642-1

Orig Life Evol Biosph

2023

DOI: 10.1007/s11084-023-09642-1

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Sequential Amplification of Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excess by Conglomerate and Racemic Compound: Plausible Prebiotic Route Towards Homochirality

A. Sharma

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Stereoselectivity of Aminoacyl-RNA Loop-closing Ligation

Kim,

Todisco,

Radakovic

et al. 2024

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The origin of amino acid homochirality remains an unresolved question in the origin of life. The requirement of enantiopure nucleotides for nonenzymatic RNA copying strongly suggests that homochirality of nucleotides and RNA arose early. However, this leaves open the question of whether and how homochiral RNA subsequently imposed biological homochirality on other metabolites including amino acids. Previous studies have reported moderate stereoselectivity for various aminoacyl-RNA transfer reactions. Here we examine aminoacyl-RNA loop-closing ligation, a reaction that ‘captures’ aminoacylated RNA in a stable phosphoramidate product, such that the amino acid bridges two nucleotides in the RNA backbone. We find that the rate of this reaction is much higher for RNA aminoacylated with L-amino acids than D-amino acids. We present an RNA sequence that near-exclusively captures L-amino acids in loop-closing ligation. Finally, we demonstrate that ligation of aminoacyl-L-RNA results in inverse stereoselectivity for D-amino acids. The observed stereochemical link between D-RNA and L-amino acids in the synthesis of RNA stem-loops containing bridging amino acids constitutes a stereoselective structure building process. We suggest that this process led to a selection for the evolution of aminoacyl-RNA synthetase ribozymes that were selective for L-amino acids, thereby setting the stage for the subsequent evolution of homochiral peptide and ultimately protein synthesis.TOC FigureSummaryIn this work, we test for potential stereoselectivity in aminoacyl-RNA loop closing ligation. We find that the reaction preferentially captures L-amino acids, with implications towards the origin of amino acid homochirality.

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Stereoselectivity of Aminoacyl-RNA Loop-closing Ligation

Kim,

Todisco,

Radakovic

et al. 2024

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Sequential Amplification of Amino Acid Enantiomeric Excess by Conglomerate and Racemic Compound: Plausible Prebiotic Route Towards Homochirality

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