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Fotodissociación ultravioleta de los aminoácidos proteígenos
Brendan Moore1, Kyle Mahoney1, Mei Fei Zeng1
1Department of Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 11, 2023
Resumen
La luz ultravioleta descompone los aminoácidos quirales, destruyendo la quiralidad y formando radicales hidrocarboxilo (HOCO). Estos radicales se descomponen y los fragmentos de aminoácidos forman iminas, útiles para detectar aminoácidos en el espacio.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La fotoquímica
- Astroquímica
- Espectroscopia
Sus antecedentes:
- Los aminoácidos son los bloques fundamentales de la vida.
- Comprender su comportamiento fotoquímico es crucial para la astrobiología.
- Los estudios anteriores se centraron en la alanina; se necesita una investigación más amplia.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar la fotoquímica ultravioleta de la glicina neutra, la leucina, la prolina y la serina.
- Determinar los productos y los mecanismos de fotodisociación.
- Evaluar el potencial para detectar aminoácidos en el espacio interestelar.
Principales métodos:
- Espectroscopia de aislamiento por matriz de parahidrógeno.
- Irradiación ultravioleta de 213 nm.
- Espectroscopia infrarroja con transformación de Fourier para el análisis temporal.
Principales resultados:
- La irradiación UV a 213 nm destruye la quiralidad en los aminoácidos quirales a través de la escisión del enlace alfa-carbonilo C-C.
- Se producen radicales hidrocarboxilo (HOCO) que se fotodisocian rápidamente.
- Los radicales de aminas forman las iminas (metanimina, 3-metilbutano-1-imina, etanimina) o las iminas cíclicas (1-pirrolina).
- El formaldehído también es un producto de la fotólisis de serina.
Conclusiones:
- La producción de radicales HOCO es un fenómeno general en la fotólisis de aminoácidos.
- La fotólisis de aminoácidos favorece la formación de iminas sobre los radicales de aminas.
- HOCO e iminas son biomarcadores potenciales para los aminoácidos en el espacio interestelar.
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