Stephen Kent (chemist)

Stephen Kent (chemist)

Stephen B. H. Kent (* 1945 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a chemist at the University of Chicago who developed native chemical ligation and also demonstrated the principle that mirror-image amino acids put together to form a protein create a mirror-image protein which, if an enzyme, can catalyze the mirror-image reaction.

External links

* [http://chemistry.uchicago.edu/fac/kent.shtml Kent home page Univ. of Chicago ]


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