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(Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms USSR
Academy of Sciences, Puschino: Biological Center Institute of
Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, 1990. 47 pp.)
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10. Protein Research Institute in Pushchino.
Located in the Moscow region at Puschino, 142292. Fax: 924-04-93. Tel.
3-05-42 (P.) Directed by Aleksandr S. Spirin. Tel. 924-04-93.
Spirin, Aleksandr S., D. Bio S. Born in 1931 in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast.
Russian biochemist. Academician of the Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry
of Physiologically Active Compounds Department of the AN SSSR (now the
Physical and Chemical Biology Department) and the RAN since 1970. He
graduated from Moscow State University in 1954, where he studied under A. N.
Belozerskii. From 1962 to 1967, he was head of a laboratory at the A. N. Bakh
Institute of Biochemistry of the AN SSSR. Since 1967, he has been director of the
Pushchino Protein Research Institute that was established in 1967 as one of four
institutes comprising the Science Research Center at Pushchino. It conducts
research on protein structure and the biosynthesis of polypeptide chains. Since
1974, he has also been Chief of the Mechanisms of Protein Biosynthesis laboratory
of the institute. His works are in the biochemistry of nucleic acids and the biosynthesis
of proteins. Lenin Prize, 1976. (GSE 24, p. 426.)
Retrospect: The institute was founded in 1967 to develop fundamental research on
problems of protein. In 1991, the institute was comprised of nine laboratories and
13 research groups. It had a computer center, a scientific information department
and several auxiliary support units. Total staff numbered 340 of whom 77 were
research scientists and 50 were post graduate students--the balance being engineers,
laboratory assistants, and technical and service Personnel. A Scientific Council develops
the main research programs, reviews research proposals, hears progress
reports, and determines the structure of the institute.
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Structure and Scientific Personnel: Director Aleksandr S. Spirin, D. Bio. S., since
'67--academician of the AN SSSR; Deputy Directors: Professor Lev P.
Ovchinnikov, Iurii V. Mitin, D. Chem. S., since '74; Oleg B. Ptitsin, D. PM. S.,
since '74; Vitali N. Shaklunov, since '74; Scientific Secretary: Aleksandr V.
Efimov, C. Chem. S.
The Laboratory of Mechanisms of Protein Biosynthesis under Aleksandr S.
Spirin, D. Bio. S.; Alexei G. Riazanov, D. Bio. S., senior researcher; Vladimir I.
Baranov, C. PM. S., senior researcher; Lubov’ A. Riabova, C. Bio. S., junior
researcher; Oleg B. Iarchuk, C. Bio. S., junior researcher, and Viacheslav A.
Kolb, junior researcher--the lab studies ribosome structure and function
concentrating on bacterial ribosomes.
The Laboratory of Regulation of Protein Biosysthesis under Lev. P.
Ovchinnikov, D. Bio. S., and corresponding member of the Russian Academy;
Waldemar B. Minich, C. Bio. S., Elena K. Davidova, C. Bio. S., Albert S.
Sitikov, C. Bio. S., and Oleg N. Denisenko, C. Bio. S. are all researchers in this
laboratory whose main area of research includes the organization and functioning of
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