KEY TO LIFE. "Chiral homogeneity in biology is a consequence of biosynthetic pathways which employ asymmetric enzyme catalysts with chiral binding sites." https://lnkd.in/eF4tJP4 View in LinkedIn
KEY TO LIFE. "The principal polymers of life are composed of chiral stereoisomers. Amino acids of the L-configuration are polymerized into proteins, and the carbohydrate component of nucleic acids is of the D-configuration." https://lnkd.in/eF4tJP4 View in LinkedIn
KEY PROPERTY. "Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking underpins a variety of areas such as subatomic physics and biochemistry and leads to an impressive range of fundamental phenomena." https://lnkd.in/e7ZujFy View in LinkedIn
COMPETING AGENDAS. "Provelella grows best in carbohydrates; dietary fiber provides a competitive advantage to Bifidobacteria, and Bacteriodetes has a substrate preference for certain fats." It is all about ecological balance. https://lnkd.in/es44Vig View in LinkedIn
KEY OBSERVATION. "L'univers est dissymétrique. Life as manifested to us is a function of the asymmetry of the universe, and of the consequences of this fact." (Pasteur). https://lnkd.in/ewEX4X6 View in LinkedIn
COMPETING AGENDAS. "Individual members of the microbiota, and consortia of those microbes, have been shown to be highly dependent on the nutritional composition of the diet." https://lnkd.in/es44Vig View in LinkedIn
PASTEUR (1848) was looking at some crystals of tartaric acid under the microscope, and observed that there were mirror-opposite types of crystals that when dissolved in solution rotated light in opposite directions. This was an act of pure curiosity. These observations led to a whole new field of chirality. https://lnkd.in/ewEX4X6 View in LinkedIn