An apparent binary choice in biochemistry: mutual reactivity implies life chooses thiols or nitrogen-sulfur bonds, but not both

A fundamental goal of biology is to understand the rules behind life's use of chemical space. Established work focuses on why life uses the chemistry that it does. Given the enormous scope of possible chemical space, we postulate that it is equally important to ask why life largely avoids certa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Petkowski, Janusz, Bains, William, Seager, Sara
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert Inc 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124665