Re: left-handed non-biological amino acids

Bill Hamilton (hamilton@predator.cs.gmr.com)
Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:21:10 -0500

Glenn Morton wrote:

>amino acid d/l ratio in Murchison meteorite
> GLU ASP PRO LEU ALA
>H2O .322 .202 .342 .166 .682
>H2O .30 .30 .30 nd .60
>HCl .176 .126 .105 .029 .307

I know that the column headings are abbreviations for four amino acids, and
I suspect d/l means right/left. But what do the row headings mean? Yeah,
I know they're the symbols for water (twice) and hydrochloric acid, but
what do they mean, and is the same label on two rows an error?

Bill Hamilton
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