A group of researchers from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) are quite happy as they have been able to solve a mystery revolving around protein synthesis.

Study researchers in their paper titled, Mechanism of chiral proofreading during translation of genetic code, has explained as what makes L-amino acids to participate in protein synthesis alone and how D-amino acids gets removed from the procedure.

The study, which has been published in the journal 'eLIFE', has affirmed that the D-amino acids get eliminated from the scene through an enzyme called DTD.

"The study has significantly advanced our knowledge on a very fundamental aspect of life and explains why we do not have a mirror image biological world", CCMB Director Mohan Rao.

Proteins are vital for majorly every biological process whether in bacteria or in humans. Protein is nothing but long polymers that are made from amino acids clubbed together.

Such chains are then molded in such forms that they can carry out special cellular tasks like metabolic reactions. In such a scenario, it gets very important as how the amino acids are present to form proteins as it is quite vital for life.

It shall also be noted that L-amino acids and D-amino acids are mirror images of one another, but L-amino acids have been chosen by the nature to make proteins.