Carbonyl Sulfide Forms Peptide Bonds

Article online at Astrobiology Magazine

Life's a Gas, Carbonyl Sulfide Forms Peptide Bonds (based on Scripps
report)

http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules...cle&sid= 1237

(their)
"Summary (Oct 08, 2004): How did the first amino acids form the first
peptides? It is the important question that may point the pathway
towards understanding the primordial soup. Researchers now suggest
that the binder for linking together building blocks may have been
volcanic gases--or carbonyl sulfide."

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