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It's generally possible to epimerize l-amino acids to d- (or functionalize glycine) but you're competing with nonmirror life at that point. plus bacteria will love love love the d-alanine you make


Thanks for the correction. What about the peptide bound? Can normal bacteria break mirror-proteins?




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