| Life, luck and logic in biochemical research / F. LynenChapter 1： |
| Memories of Heidelberg - and of other places / T. Wieland2： |
| Stepping stones - building bridges / B. Witkop3： |
| Recollections: Vacillation of a classical biochemist / E.J.M. Helmreich4： |
| These are the moments when we live! From thunberg tubes and manometry to phone, fax and fedex / H. Beinert5： |
| Chorismic acid and beyond / F. Gibson6： |
| Charge separation: A personal involvement in fundamental biological process / R.N. Robertson7： |
| A biochemical autobiography / C. Rimington8： |
| The importance of asking questions / P.N. Campbell9： |
| Preface to Volume 40 |
| Contributors to this Volume |
| Wandering in the Fields of Science / S. Lifson |
| Keilin and the Molteno / M.F. PerutzChapter 2： |
| Introduction |
| Keilin's favourite |
| Warburton and the Siberian tick |
| Frail health |
| Lack of tenure |
| An Australian Biochemist in Four Countries / E.C. SlaterChapter 3： |
| Early life in Australia 1917-1939 |
| Family background |
| Schooling |
| University education |
| First research |
| Australian Institute of Anatomy 1939-1946 |
| World War II work interlude (1942-1943) |
| Return to Canberra |
| Cambridge 1946-1949 |
| Molteno Institute |
| Australian National University |
| USA 1949-1950 |
| Return to Cambridge 1950-1955 |
| Enzyme kinetics |
| Stability of isolated mitochondria |
| Oxidative phosphorylation |
| Offer of Amsterdam Chair |
| Amsterdam 1955-1985 |
| Starting in Amsterdam |
| First five years in Amsterdam 1955-1960 |
| Second five years 1961-1965 |
| The second decade (1965-1975) |
| Reorganization of Netherlands universities as a result of student pressure |
| The last decade in Amsterdam 1975-1985 |
| Extra-university activities |
| Biochimica et Biophysica Acta |
| Nomenclature |
| EMBO and EMBL |
| The Royal Netherlands Academy of Science |
| The Netherlands Organization of Pure Scientific Research (ZWO) |
| International Union of Biochemistry (IUB) |
| China |
| Retirement |
| Concluding remarks |
| References |
| A Lifetime Journey with Photosynthesis / A.A. KrasnovskyChapter 4： |
| Preface |
| Childhood and primary education |
| Professional education in chemistry |
| War and the beginning of the biochemical career |
| Photochemistry of chlorophyll |
| Reversible chlorophyll photoreduction |
| Reversible chlorophyll photooxidation |
| Chase for free radicals |
| Chlorophyll-photosensitized electron transfer |
| The state of the photosynthetic pigments in living cells |
| Reaction centers |
| Inorganic models of reaction centers |
| Involvement in problems of the origin of life |
| Teaching at the Moscow University |
| Epilogue |
| Efraim Racker: 28 June 1913 to 9 September 1991 / G. SchatzChapter 5： |
| A Life with the Metals of Life / B.G. MalmstromChapter 6： |
| Introduction: the shaping of a bioinorganic chemist |
| Early influences on my intellectual development |
| A gymnasium with a university curriculum |
| A book with a mission |
| From gymnasium to college studies in the United States |
| The graduate school years |
| The beginnings of research |
| Intellectual influences on a graduate student |
| Enzyme research in Uppsala |
| Metal-ion activation of enolase |
| Uppsala friends |
| Instructor in Minnesota |
| Teaching and research |
| A short army career |
| 'Docent' in Uppsala |
| The embryo of an enzyme group |
| An expanding research program |
| An interlude in Utah |
| The beginnings of oxidase research |
| The end of the Uppsala period |
| Visiting professor in California |
| A bioinorganic course |
| The transition from Uppsala to G oteborg |
| Professor at Goteborg University |
| A glimpse of the Swedish academic system of the 1960s |
| The building of a new department |
| A number of visitors |
| My research 1964-93 |
| Laccase and other blue copper proteins |
| Three sabbaticals |
| Early cytochrome oxidase investigations |
| My collaboration with Harry Gray |
| Electron transfer and proton pumping |
| The Cu A site |
| The Nobel Committee for Chemistry 1972-1988 |
| The composition of the committee |
| Some small reforms |
| The happy life of a professor emeritus |
| Mutants of bacterial cytochrome oxydases |
| Cu A and PNA |
| Acknowledgements |
| Harland Goff Wood: An American Biochemist / R. Singleton, Jr.Chapter 7： |
| Early years and education |
| Affiliation with C. H. Werkman at Iowa State |
| Graduate research |
| Postdoctoral work |
| The propionic acid cycle |
| Early studies on propionic acid metabolism |
| Expansion of the research project |
| Discovery of the transcarboxylation reaction |
| Isolation of the transcarboxylase enzyme |
| Completion of the propionic acid cycle |
| Conclusions |
| Coda |
| Fermentation balances / Appendix A： |
| Fate has Smiled Kindly / S.V. PerryChapter 8： |
| Early |
| Preface to Volume 41 Contributors to this Volume |
| Enemy Alien |
| Kaj Linderstroslash;m-Lang (1896ndash;1959) / J. Schellman ; C. Schellman |
| A late-blooming scientist |
| The Carlsberg Laboratory |
| Lang's scientific career |
| Linderstroslash;m-Lang, the man |
| Acknowledgements and references for further reading |
| Strife and Hope in the Lives of a Scientist Couple / M. Barany ; K. Barany |
| Years of 1939ndash;1945 |
| The Szentndash;Gyorgyi Institute |
| The Straub Institute |
| The Weizmann Institute |
| The Weber Institute |
| Institute for Muscle Disease |
| University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Half a Century with TMV and Biophysics / M.A. Lauffer |
| Beginnings |
| The Princeton years |
| The move to Pittsburgh |
| The Virus Research Program |
| The Biophysics Department |
| The Lipoprotein Program |
| Hydration |
| Form and function |
| Deaning |
| Inactivation of viruses by X-rays |
| Fort Dietrich |
| Compliments |
| The McCarthy era |
| Whiskers |
| Hydrodynamics |
| The middle 1950s to the middle 1960s |
| The education enterprise |
| Motion in biological systems |
| Entropy-driven processes in biology |
| The meaning of entropy-driven processes |
| Retired living |
| The Initial Step in my Science Career / H. Fujita |
| Prologue |
| Getting a job at the Department of Fisheries |
| Non-linear diffusion |
| My stay in Leiden |
| Moving to the United States |
| Days on the Madison campus |
| Fascination in Modeling Motifs / H. Kuhn |
| 1920s and 1930s |
| Werner Kuhn and modeling polymer molecules |
| Linus Pauling and attempts in quantum chemistry |
| Niels Bohr and the branched pgr; electron systems |
| Tests and refinements of the free electron model |
| Coupled oscillator approach |
| The 1950s and today |
| Supramolecular machines |
| Scheibe aggregates |
| Copying at the molecular level |
| Manipulating electron and proton motion |
| Origin of life |
| Erik Jorpes - A Pragmatic Physiological Chemist / V. Mutt ; M. Blomback |
| Erik Jorpes' childhood and youth |
| Jorpes as a grantee in America: nucleic acids, endocrine secretion of pancreas, secretin, insulin, and heparin |
| Erik Jorpes and other studies by his colleagues in clinical medicine |
| Other important research in the department |
| Edman and protein characterization |
| Viktor Mutt's recollections of Erik Jorpes in the research environment in 1944 |
| Recollections of Margareta Blomback on the working environment in the 1950s and the early 1960s |
| Erik Jorpes as historian and teacher |
| Jorpes and the international research community |
| Jorpes as a person |
| Half a Century Between Carbohydrates and Proteins / N. Sharon |
| Family and childhood in Poland |
| Growing up in Palestine |
| Choosing biochemistry as a profession |
| How I started with carbohydrates |
| Into protein biosynthesis |
| Returning to carbohydrates |
| Learning about enzyme mechanisms |
| Back in the Laboratory for Carbohydrate Research |
| Lysozyme, peptidoglycan and penicillin |
| My first glycoprotein and first lectin |
| Obscure proteins as markers for cancer cells |
| Chemical and biological characterization of soybean agglutinin |
| Enter peanut agglutinin |
| A life-saving application |
| Bacterial surface lectins and infectious disease |
| Carbohydrates in anti-adhesion therapy |
| Early evidence for innate immunity |
| Atomic basis of carboh |
| Preface to Volume 44 |
| Contents |
| Glucose Catabolism in Yeast and Muscle / James A. Barnett |
| Abstract |
| Glycolysis: The Pathway of Ethanolic Fermentation in Yeasts and Lactic Acid-Formation in Muscles |
| Some Background: The 19th Century and After |
| Some Remarkable Investigators |
| Fermentation by Yeast Extracts |
| The Role of Phosphates in Fermentation |
| Harden's Finding that Phosphate Increases Fermentation |
| The Equation for Fermentation and Harden and Young's Discovery of D-Fructose 1,6-Bisphosphate |
| Isolation of Additional Hexose Phosphates of the Glycolytic Pathway |
| Phosphate Bond Energy |
| The Discovery of NAD and NADP |
| The Formation of Glycerol in Fermentation |
| Recognition of an Identical Glycolytic Pathway in Yeasts, Animals and Plants |
| Neuberg's Theory of 1913 |
| Embden's Pathway of 1933 |
| Elucidating Some Enzymes of Glycolysis |
| Hexokinase |
| Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase |
| 6-Phosphofructokinase |
| Triose Phosphate Isomerase and Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase |
| Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Phosphoglycerate Kinase |
| Phosphoglycerate Mutase |
| Phosphopyruvate Hydratase ("Enolase") |
| Pyruvate Kinase |
| Pyruvate Decarboxylase |
| Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) |
| l-Lactate Dehydrogenase |
| The Main Respiratory Pathway |
| The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle |
| "Active Acetate" |
| Coenzyme A |
| The Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle in Yeasts |
| Membrane Impermeability |
| The Concept of Oxidation |
| Intracellular Oxidation |
| Concepts of Biological Oxidations up to 1925 |
| Cytochrome |
| The Respiratory Chain: A Summary |
| Conclusion |
| Acknowledgments |
| A Lifetime with Microbes / Georges N. Cohen |
| L'Institut Pasteur de Paris |
| Gif sur Yvette |
| Back to the Pasteur Institute (1969-83) |
| Wearing Two Hats / Guy Dirheimer |
| The War Years, 1939-1945 |
| Secondary School and University |
| Starting Research at the CNRS in J.-P. Ebel's Lab |
| Crossing Africa |
| Inorganic Polyphosphates |
| Military Service and Lysozyme |
| Polyphosphates and RNAs |
| Professor of Biochemistry |
| Starting with tRNAs in Holley's Lab |
| Countercurrent Distribution of tRNAs |
| Starting Toxicology with Ricin |
| Analogues of Nucleotides |
| CNRS Commissions |
| The Events of May 1968 |
| Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy |
| Sequencing tRNAs |
| Ricin Toxic Peptides |
| Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases |
| Specific Modifications of tRNAs: Lead and Carcinogens |
| Building the IBMC |
| Mitochondrial tRNAs |
| Ricin, Final Episode |
| tRNA Modification |
| Continuing the Sequencing of tRNAs |
| Yeast Mitochondrial tRNA Structures and the Genetic Code |
| Workshops and Congresses |
| FEBS Officer |
| DNA Methylation |
| Applied Research |
| EST Congress in Strasbourg and EUROTOX |
| Cloning and Sequencing of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases Genes |
| Teaching and Committees |
| Reorganisation of the IBMC |
| Toxicology of Madagascar Plants and Mushrooms |
| Evolution of the IBMC |
| Ochratoxine A |
| FEBS Meeting 1999 in Nice |
| President of FEBS |
| Of Mice and Men - The Mx Connection / Jean Lindenmann |
| By Way of Introduction |
| From London via Zurich to Bern |
| The A2G Saga, First Part |
| The Second Chance |
| A Case of Innate Resistance |
| The A2G Saga, Second Part |
| Putting Two and Two Together |
| Gainesville |
| A Foray into Mouse Genetics |
| From Gainesville to Zurich |
| Another Try at Genetics |
| Back to Basics |
| The Dawn |
| Into Molecular Biology |
| Discussion |
| By Way of Closing |
| An Unconventional Journey to Neuroscience / Richard Rodnight |
| Early Years |
| The Years as a Medical Laboratory Technician |
| The Move into Research |
| Higher Education |
| Research at the Institute of Psychiatry |
| Basic Research |
| Teaching and Administrative Responsibilities in the Institute of Psychiatry |
| The Years in Brazil |
| The Final Move and Envoy |
| Nikolai Vavilov: Life in the Cause of Science or Science at a Cost of Life / Elena S. Levina ; Vladimir D. Yesakov ; Lev L. Kisselev |
| Abbreviations |
| Brilliant Beginning |
| Nikolai Vavilov: Nature Scientist, Leader and Organizer |
| What the Archives Have Revealed |
| Conflict between Nikolai Vavilov and Trofim Lyssenko |
| Arrest and Death |
| Index |
| Life, luck and logic in biochemical research / F. LynenChapter 1： |
| Memories of Heidelberg - and of other places / T. Wieland2： |
| Stepping stones - building bridges / B. Witkop3： |
| Recollections: Vacillation of a classical biochemist / E.J.M. Helmreich4： |
| These are the moments when we live! From thunberg tubes and manometry to phone, fax and fedex / H. Beinert5： |
| Chorismic acid and beyond / F. Gibson6： |
