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Chem. Commun., 2003, 3038 - 3039, DOI: 10.1039/b309074d


Functional analysis of the biomimetic silica precipitating activity of the R5 peptide from Cylindrotheca fusiformis

Marc R. Knecht and David W. Wright


A synthetic site-directed mutagenesis study of the non post-translationally modified silica precipitating R5 peptide reveals that the RRIL motif is critical in the formation of active silica precipitating assemblies.

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