Electron spin and the origin of Bio-homochirality I. Extant enzymatic reaction model

Abstract

In this paper, I tentatively put forward a new hypothesis that the emergence of a single chiral form of biomolecules in living organisms is specifically determined by the electron spin state during their enzyme-catalyzed synthesis processes. Specifically speaking, the electrons released from the coenzyme NAD(P)H of amino acid synthase are heterogeneous in spin states; however, when they pass through the chiral alpha-helix structure of the enzymes to the site of amino acid synthesis at the other end of the helix, their spin states are filtered and polarized, producing only spin up electrons; once the spin-polarized electrons participate in the reductive reaction between alpha-oxo acid and ammonia, only L-amino acids are formed according to the Pauli exclusion principle.