Peptide-nucleic acid nanostructures for transfection

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Burkhard Bechinger
Burkhard Bechinger obtained his PhD in 1989 at the Biocenter Basel, Switzerland. His thesis dealt with investigations of electrostatic interactions within lipid bilayers using membrane biophysical approaches. During his postdoctoral stay at the University of Pennsylvania (1990–1993) he developed and applied new solid-state NMR methods for the investigation of membrane-associated polypeptides. In 1993 he had the opportunity to start his own small research group at the Max Planck Institute of molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany with projects that were continued when he was nominated head of an Independent Junior Research Group at the MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany (1995–2001). Since 2001 he is full professor at the chemistry department of the University of Strasbourg, France where his team designs and studies peptides with different biological activities as well as membrane proteins using NMR spectroscopy and a variety of other biophysical approaches.

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https://doi.org/10.1515/bmc-2011-0067

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cell-penetrating peptides; gene therapy; nanovectors; siRNA; transcription