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Experimental observation of synergistic regular change in the chirality sign in the hierarchy of biomimetic structures

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We investigated chiroptical characteristics of homochiral solutions of biomimetics. Our results experimentally substantiate the role of change in the chirality sign during spontaneous formation of supramolecular helical structures. This self-organization presents evidence of a fundamental synergistic law of change in the chirality sign during the transition to a higher hierarchical level that is valid for modular prebiotic homochiral systems and basic molecular biological systems.

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Abbreviations

TFAAE:

trifluoroacetyl aminoethanol

RPP:

rotation of plane of polarization

CD:

circular dichroism

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  1. Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. V. Stovbun & V. A. Tverdislov

  2. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334, Russia

    A. A. Skoblin

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Stovbun, A.A. Skoblin, V.A. Tverdislov, 2014, published in Biofizika, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 1079–1084.

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Stovbun, S.V., Skoblin, A.A. & Tverdislov, V.A. Experimental observation of synergistic regular change in the chirality sign in the hierarchy of biomimetic structures. BIOPHYSICS 59, 876–880 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350914060232

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