Oops amino acid data.

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 21:09:54 -0500

In my haste at copying the data out of my database, I inadvertently cut out
the label that defined what the information in the table meant. Bill
Hamilton was the first criticism I saw so thanks Bill.

The relevant section should be re stated

In 1982 Engel and Nagy reported that the amino acids they extracted from the
Murchison meteorite were non-racemic. They found a significantly greater
percentage of L-amino acids than D-amino acids. There data is as follows:

D/L ratio of amino acids in the Murchison meteorite. You can see that a
large percentage is left-handed.
GLU ASP PRO LEU ALA
H2O .322 .202 .342 .166 .682
H2O .30 .30 .30 nd .60
HCl .176 .126 .105 .029 .307

~Michael H. Engel and Bartholomew Nagy, "Distribution and
Enantiomeric Composition of Amino Acids in the Murchison
Meteorite", Nature , 296, April 29, 1982, p. 838.

The H2O and HCl are different lab techniques.

Sorry for the sloppyiness in my copying.

glenn

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