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Scholar Profile
George Barany
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
207 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431
Voice: 612-625-1028
Fax: 612-626-7541
Email: barany@umn.edu
Personal Homepage
1982 Searle Scholar
Research Interests
Biological Chemistry - peptide synthesis, particularly the solid-phase method
- protecting groups for organic functionalities, with an emphasis on the concept of "orthogonality"
- chemistry of thiols, disulfides, and polysulfanes
- sulfurization reagents for synthetic antisense DNA and RNA
- functionalization of soluble and insoluble polymers
- elucidation of labile structures by mass spectrometry
- attack on problems of biological interest from a chemical angle
- pharmaceutical effects of garlic and onion constituents
- rational design of protein analogues with altered specificities
- mechanism of protein folding
- role of sugars, phosphates, and other posttranslational modifications for structure and function of peptide conjugates
- preparation of DNA and PNA arrays for detection of genetic diseases
- chemical combinatorial libraries
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