Ghadiri, Reza

Guo Qingchuan, Ghadiri Reza, Weigel Thomas, et al. Comparison of in situ and ex situ methods for synthesis of two-photon polymerization polymer nanocomposites. 

The scientific world was amazed to hear that David Lee, from the laboratory of Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California), had found a self-replicating peptide (Lee et al., 1996) there are analogies to the experiments with oligonucleotides (see Sect. 6.4). Lee was able to show that a certain peptide, containing 32 amino acids, can both function as a matrix and also support its own synthesis autocatalytically. The information transfer is clearly more complex than that involved in nucleic acid replication. In the case of this particular peptide, both the... 

Bong, D. T., Steinem, C., Janshofif, A., Johnson, J. E., and Reza Ghadiri, M. (1999). A highly membrane-active peptide in flock house virus Implications for the mechanism of nodavirus infection. Chem. Biol. 6, 473 81. 

M. Reza Ghadiri Department of Chemistry The Scripps Research Institute 10666 North Torrey Pines Road CA 92037 La Jolla-U.S.A. tel. +1-619-784-2700 fax +1-619-784-2798 e-mail ghadiri scripps.edu... 

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