2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Credits Editors: Gunnar von Heijne, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Bengt Nordén, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and Eva Krutmeijer and Malin Lindgren, Information Department, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and Illustrations: Typoform Printing: Tryckindustri 2003…
more
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The cell’s contact with the outer world The wall that separates a cell from its surroundings – the membrane – is not an impermeable shell. It is pierced through by various sorts of channel. The channels consist of proteins, each with its…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Further Reading WATER CHANNELS Appearance of water channels in Xenopus oocytes expressing red cell CHIP28 protein by G.M. Preston, T.P. Carroll, W.B. Guggino, and P. Agre, Science 256 (1992), p. 385-387 Molecular Mechanisms for Human Diseases by P. Agre and D. Kozono,…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Peter Agre Peter Agre is Professor of Biological Chemistry and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA. Water channels: The cell leaks like a sieve How does water actually pass through the cell membrane? The…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”, with one half of the prize to Peter Agre “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon…
moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Cells signal with salt! As you read this brief text enormous numbers of ion channels are opening and closing in your brain, of the order of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1015). The amount of ions moving in the channels during this time would correspond…
moreNobelpriset i kemi 2003 – Populärvetenskaplig information
Popular information
Swedish 8 oktober 2003 Allt levande består av celler. En enda människa har lika många celler som stjärnorna i en galax, ungefär 100 miljarder. De olika cellerna, t.ex. muskelceller, njurceller och nervceller, samverkar i ett intrikat system i var och en av oss. Årets Nobelpristagare i kemi, Peter Agre och Roderick MacKinnon, har bidragit till…
more