Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

I believe Eric is paraphrasing Genesis 3. It's all the serpent's fault. http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/PUB/misc-misc/GenesysParody.html On 16/02/2012 02:39, Eric Bennett wrote: Jacob, I wish it were that cheery. Do

Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

Jacob, I wish it were that cheery. Do not forget the darker side of history. The prefix "L-" stands for levorotary. The "levo" comes from the Latin wording for "left side". Left handedness is also known as sinistrality, from the Latin "sinistra" which also meant the left side, but over time

Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

G-d is right-handed, so to speak: Ex 15:6 "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy." Since we are made in His image, and our (chiral) molecules are the cause of making most of us right-handed, which enantiomer to use was not a r

Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

Well if you think about it technically God produced plants within three days which if far too little work for a thesis. Maybe it could count as preliminary results for one aim of a thesis proposal so it might be enough to get PhD candidacy depending on how demanding your committee is. You could alw

Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

Hi Jacob: After giving this a great deal of reflection ….. I realized that you would face the same paradox that God had to resolve six thousand years ago at the Dawn of Creation, i.e., He needed D-deoxyribose DNA to code for L-amino acid proteins, and vice versa. Likewise, you would probably be f

Re: [ccp4bb] All-D World

The structure of an all D-amino acid version of the HIV-1 protease was solved in 1992 (see Milton, Milton, and Kent, 1992, Science, 256:1445-1448). The D-enzyme was seen to have a structure that is the mirror image of the L-enzyme, and showed specificity for the enantiomeric form of the chiral subs