What if scientists accidentally created bacteria your body couldn’t recognize or fight? In this OWOH podcast, Jassi Pannu of @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social explains why research into #mirrorbacteria raises serious alarms.
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The Legacy of Asilomar
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That fear of creating a creature that can’t be controlled drove researchers to call for caution in mirror life research and a pointed ...
Mirror bacteria are a fascinating yet deeply concerning concept emerging from synthetic biology. These organisms are designed to be built entirely from reversed biological molecules, opposite to the natural building blocks of life.
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Our analysis suggests that #mirrorbacteria would likely #evade many immune mechanisms mediated by #chiral #molecules, #potentially causing #lethal #infection in humans, animals, and plants.
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Dive deep into the risks and future of "mirror bacteria," revolutionary synthetic organisms that defy natural biology. Uncover their potential to reshape ecosystems and human health.
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Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.
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Mirror mirror on the wall: Which paper should I read today? Adamala et al. 2024 #SyntheticBiology #Mirrorlife #MirrorBacteria #Biosecurity #mirrorSky🦠🪞🦠
Figure 1.1: Chiral molecules have non-superimposable mirror images A. The amino acid glycine is an achiral molecule, as it can be superimposed on its mirror image. B. All other canonical amino acids are chiral molecules, with two non-superimposable mirror images. Alanine is illustrated as an example. Even if D-alanine is rotated 180° so its amino and carboxyl groups are in the same orientation as L-alanine, as shown in the figure, the two cannot be superimposed because the methyl group in L-alanine is projecting into the page but the methyl group in d-alanine is projecting out of the page.
Figure 1.3: Mirror-image amino acids compose mirror-image peptides that fold into mirror-image proteins All natural amino acids except glycine are chiral, and only the L-enantiomers are used in natural protein Substituting the L-amino acids for their mirror image D-amino acid enantiomers would result in a mirror-imag polypeptide chain. The interactions between the side chains for amino acids in the D-peptide are the same as th L-peptide, but with the opposite orientation. Thus, the mirror-image peptide chain folds into a protein that is th mirror image of its natural chirality counterpart. (Structure image for example protein, carbonic anhydrase, produce by Pymol 3.0.0 from Protein Data Bank accession number 1CA2.)
#MedSky🧪 #IDsky #MicroSky #Syntheticbiology #publichealth This report describes the technical feasibility of creating #mirrorbacteria and the potentially serious and wide-ranging risks that they could pose to humans, other animals, plants, and the environment.
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