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To: b_sharp
Name what protein?

The one you claim you cited.

The first experiment, I believe, was a designed 32 unit protein, specifically chosen because it would act as a template for the designed reaction. It was then split into a 17 unit block and a 15 unit block. The blocks were properly activated and then allowed to react. Voila! A designed experiment produced a designed result. Half a cadillac joined preferentially to the matching other half of a cadillac when superglue was put into the proper position. Fact is, there are plenty of "self-replicating" chemicals. They just reside in living things. Simply put, to dot the i in a penned copy of "Hamlet" does not make you Shakespeare.

370 posted on 10/03/2005 8:09:03 PM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
Recent examples of protein design in our laboratory include spontaneous self-assembly of a 15-residue peptide into a 45-residue parallel three-helix bundle metalloprotein, design of a 64-residue four-helix bundle ruthenium (II) metalloprotein, and construction of the first de novo designed heterobimetallic RuII.CuII three-helix bundle protein.

We have recently designed one self replicating system based on the leucine zipper motif of GCN4. One 32-residue alpha-helical peptide serves as a template to organize two constituent fragments in the proper orientation prior to ligation. Condensation of the two fragments produces a second template which can serve as a template for another such reaction

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373 posted on 10/03/2005 8:21:25 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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