Editing Lysozyme (section)

== Chemical synthesis ==

The first chemical synthesis of a lysozyme protein was attempted by Prof. George W. Kenner and his group at the University of Liverpool in England.<ref name="pmid19745">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kenner GW | title = The Bakerian lecture. Towards synthesis of proteins | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences | volume = 197 | issue = 1128 | pages = 237–253 | date = June 1977 | pmid = 19745 | doi = 10.1098/rspb.1977.0068 | s2cid = 170906912 | bibcode = 1977RSPSB.197..237K }}</ref> This was finally achieved in 2007 by Thomas Durek in Steve Kent's lab at the University of Chicago who made a synthetic functional lysozyme molecule.<ref name="pmid17360367">{{cite journal | vauthors = Durek T, Torbeev VY, Kent SB | title = Convergent chemical synthesis and high-resolution x-ray structure of human lysozyme | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 104 | issue = 12 | pages = 4846–4851 | date = March 2007 | pmid = 17360367 | pmc = 1829227 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0610630104 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2007PNAS..104.4846D }}</ref>