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David A. Tirrell
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Science, 265, 1427 (1994) M.T. Krejchi, E.D.T. Atkins, A.J. Waddon, M.J. Fournier, T.L. Mason and D.A. Tirrell. "Chemical Sequence Control of ß-Sheet Assembly in Macromolecular Crystals of Periodic Polypeptides."

Science, 273, 933 (1996) E. Evans, H. K. Bowman, A. Leung, D. Needham and D.A. Tirrell. "Biomembrane Templates for Nanoscale Conduits and Networks."

Science, 281, 389 (1998) W. A. Petka, J. L. Harden, K. P. McGrath, D. Wirtz and D.A. Tirrell. "Reversible Hydrogels from Self-Assembling Artificial Proteins."

Nature, 389, 167 (1997) S.M. Yu, V. Conticello, G.H. Zhang, C. Kayser, M.J. Fournier, T.L. Mason and D.A. Tirrell. "Smectic Ordering in Solutions and Films of a Rod-like Polymer Owing to Monodispersity of Chain Length."

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 1282 (2000). J.C.M. van Hest, K.L. Kiick and D.A. Tirrell. "Efficient Incorporation of Unsaturated Methionine Analogues into Proteins in vivo."
FEBS Letters, 467, 37 (2000). N. Sharma, R. Furter and D.A. Tirrell. "Efficient Introduction of Aryl Bromide Functionality into Proteins in vivo."

Biomacromolecules, 1, 23 (2000). E.R. Welsh and D.A. Tirrell. "Engineering the Extracellular Matrix: A Novel Approach to Polymeric Biomaterials. I. Control of Physical Properties of Artificial Protein Matrices Designed to Support Adhesion of Vascular Endothelial Cells."

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 39, 2148 (2000). K.L. Kiick, J.C.M. van Hest and D.A. Tirrell. "Expanding the Scope of Protein Biosynthesis by Altering the Methionyl-tRNA Synthetase Activity of a Bacterial Expression Host."