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Title Personal recollections IV / volume editors, E.C. Slater, Rainer Jaenicke, Giorgio Semenza
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 490 pages :) : illustrations, portraits
Series Comprehensive biochemistry. Section 6, volume 38, A history of biochemistry. Selected topics in the history of biochemistry. Personal recollections ; 4
Comprehensive biochemistry.
Contents Front Cover; Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry Personal Recollections, IV; Copyright Page; Preface to Volume 38; Contributors to this Volume; In Memoriam; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Life, Luck and Logic in Biochemical Research; Chapter 2. Memories of Heidelberg -- and of Other Places; Early life in Munich; The first years in Heidelberg; Research and teaching; Lactic acid dehydrogenases; The time in Mainz; Biochemical research after the war; First journey to the USA; Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt a. Ì; Half a century of mushroom research
An import system in liver cellsStructures of the phytotoxins; Oxidative phosphorylation; Enzymatic peptide synthesis; The plastein reaction; Again in Heidelberg; Retrospection; Acknowledgements; Appendix; References; Chapter 3. Stepping Stones -- Building Bridges; Between two wars; The painful transition from the fragile Weimar Republic to the tyranny of the Third Reich; Chemistry in Munich: Richard Willstätter and Heinrich Wieland; 'Kristallnacht' or the 'Night of Broken Glass'; Dissertation on the toxin of the deathcap; The end of the war; Harvard University, 1947-1950
Colleagues and friendsAmino acids -- then and now; Much 'trypto-fun' and the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research (ISTRY); Albert Hofmann's 'Problem Child'; Probing sequences of the gramicidins, serum albumins and TMV virus; Origin and fate of norepinephrine in man and in insects; Labile metabolites; Cyanogen bromide: from protein sequencing to protein accounting; Photoreduction of uridine and thymidine; Wieland's legacy: from toads to frogs to birds; Epilogue; References; Chapter 4. Recollections: Vacillation of a Classical Biochemist; The early years in Munich
Non-heme iron: iron-sulfur proteinsIron-sulfur proteins of the mitochondrial respiratory chain; Iron-sulfur clusters in non-oxidative enzymes; aconitase; The Janus-faced protein; Reminder: Some moments when not; Dedication; Addendum; References; Chapter 6. Chorismic Acid and Beyond; Scientific beginnings; First steps in research; Aromatic biosynthesis; A change of direction; Menaquinone and ubiquinone: biosynthesis and function; Phenolic compounds and iron transport; ATPase and oxidative phosphorylation; A trail of research; Miscellanea; Acknowledgements; References
Summary The editors invited selected authors who had participated in or observed developments in biochemistry and molecular biology, particularly in the second half of this century, to record their personal recollections of the times and circumstances in which they worked. Having been given free reign, both content and style of the contruibutions reflect the flavour of the personality of the author. The book reflects the explosive development of biochemistry and molecular biology and related sciences that had led to the almost unique situation of these fields coming of age at a time when their found
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Biochemists -- Anecdotes
Biochemistry -- Anecdotes
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Biochemistry
Biochemists
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Form Electronic book
Author Slater, E. C
Jaenicke, R. (Rainer), 1930-
Semenza, Giorgio
ISBN 9780080933214
0080933211
1299192866
9781299192867