pH Variation as the Switch for Chiral Recognition in a Biomembrane Model

摘要

Life is intimately linked to homochirality,and chiral recognition governs most biochemical processes.At the molecular level,chiral recognition has been widely studied and is fairly well understood,whereas the transfer of chirality to the various organizational levels of multicomponent chiral biological systems is mostly still unknown,though pivotal investigations have been carried out on different systems and models.In this regard,an aspect that still needs to be elucidated is the relationship between the organization of the biological membranes and the molecular structure of the membrane components.