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星际空间中四碳糖的探测

Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space

Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA(天体生物学中心);University of Extremadura(埃斯特雷马杜拉大学);Radboud University(拉德堡德大学);Universidad Complutense de Madrid(马德里康普顿斯大学);Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik(马克斯·普朗克地外物理研究所)
Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Juan Garcia de la Concepcion, Herma M. Cuppen, Marta Rey-Montejo, Miguel Sanz-Novo, Victor M. Rivilla, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Andres Megia… 展开作者

Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, Juan Garcia de la Concepcion, Herma M. Cuppen, Marta Rey-Montejo, Miguel Sanz-Novo, Victor M. Rivilla, Jesus Martin-Pintado, Andres Megias, Carlos Briones, David San Andres, Laura Colzi, Shaoshan Zeng, Sergio Martin, Joseph Salaris, Antonio Martinez-Henares, Alvaro Lopez-Gallifa, Miguel Requena-Torres, Belen Tercero, Pablo de Vicente, Aran Insausti, Elena R. Alonso, Emilio J. Cocinero

AI总结:

通过Yebes 40米和IRAM 30米望远镜对银河系中心分子云G+0.693-0.027的超灵敏宽带谱线巡天,首次在星际介质中探测到手性四碳酮糖——赤藓酮糖,并发现其丰度至少是类似三碳糖的8倍,量子化学和天体化学模型表明它由星际尘埃上的二碳醛和醇高效形成。

摘要:

糖类是重要的生物分子,作为代谢燃料、核酸骨架组分以及结构或储能聚合物。生命起源研究的一个核心问题是单糖如何在原始地球上形成,因为实验室在原始条件下进行的实验产生的浓度不足。在小行星和陨石中检测到核糖、葡萄糖和其他单糖表明可能存在外源起源,可能是在陨石母体形成之前的星际介质中。然而,迄今为止在星际介质中尚未观测到任何糖类。我们报告了在星际介质中发现赤藓酮糖,一种手性四碳酮糖。这一探测得益于使用Yebes 40米和IRAM 30米望远镜对银河系中心分子云G+0.693-0.027进行的超灵敏宽带谱线巡天。赤藓酮糖的丰度至少是类似三碳糖的8倍,而三碳糖在我们的超灵敏观测中仍未被探测到。量子化学和天体化学模型表明,赤藓酮糖在星际尘埃颗粒上由更简单的二碳醛和醇高效形成。由于酮糖在水性条件下容易异构化为醛糖,星际赤藓酮糖可能为早期代谢和复制过程提供了可用的糖类库存。

英文摘要:

Sugars are essential biomolecules, serving as metabolic fuels, nucleic acid backbone components, and structural or energy-storage polymers. A central question in origin-of-life research is how monosaccharides formed on the primitive Earth, as laboratory experiments under prebiotic conditions yield insufficient concentrations. The detection of ribose, glucose and other monosaccharides in asteroids and meteorites suggests an exogenous origin, possibly in the interstellar medium (ISM) prior to meteoritic parent-body formation. However, no sugar has been observed in the ISM so far. We report the discovery of erythrulose, a chiral four-carbon ketose, in the ISM. The detection has been achieved thanks to ultrasensitive, broadband spectral surveys toward the Galactic Center molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027 obtained using the Yebes 40m and IRAM 30m telescopes. Erythrulose appears to be at least eight times more abundant than analogous three-carbon sugars, which remain undetected in our ultrasensitive observations. Quantum chemical and astrochemical models indicate that erythrulose forms efficiently on interstellar dust grains from simpler two-carbon aldehydes and alcohols. As ketoses readily isomerize into aldoses in aqueous conditions, interstellar erythrulose could have contributed to the sugar inventory available for early metabolic and replication processes.

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