# Zoya Ignatova
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**Role:** Biochemist; University of Hamburg ⚠️
- Senior author of [Zhang, Hubalewska & Ignatova 2009](https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1554): replacing slow codon clusters with fast ones reduced correctly folded protein in *E. coli*. This is the post's "speeding it up might break it," 17 years earlier.
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