Hello All,
This debacle is actually quite reminiscent of a similar incident that Wayne Hendrickson caught in
the 1970's concerning purported "tRNA crystals." Turned out to be completely fabricated, and the
guy's career went down the drain, I think. A good example to tell your trainees.
Jacob Keller
The ref's:
1. True identity of a diffraction pattern attributed to valyl tRNA
WAYNE A. HENDRICKSON, BROR E. STRANDBERG, ANDERS LILJAS, L. MARIO AMZEL, EATON E. LATTMAN
CONTEXT: SIR - We have examined in detail several publications by H.H. Paradies. One is a report in
Nature on 11 April 1970 about single crystals of a valine-specific tRNA from yeast1. We find that
the diffraction pattern attributed to valyl tRNA...
Nature 303, 195 - 195 (19 May 1983) Correspondence
2. A reply from Paradies
H.H. PARADIES
Nature 303, 196 - 196 (19 May 1983) Correspondence
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