Proteins Crossing Membranes: A Scientist’s Memoir

Proteins Crossing Membranes: A Scientist’s Memoir, 1, 2019 is a comprehensive biology reference published by CRC Press. Description In an intriguing series of experiments carried out many years ago, a common scientific belief, feted by no less than three Nobel prizes, was brought into question.

Key Features

- In an intriguing series of experiments carried out many years ago, a common scientific belief, feted by no less than three Nobel prizes, was brought into question
- The observations were about proteins―the molecules that the genetic code specifies and that are in one way or another central to all of life’s activities
- The experiments however were not about what proteins do, but how they are moved, in particular how they are moved from where they are made to where they act
- The results of these studies conflicted with the standard view of how this happens, and thus became controversial
- The standard view, the vesicle theory of protein secretion, envisions proteins being carried within and out of cells en masse in membrane-bound sacs or vesicles
- The controversial experiments demonstrated that to the contrary individual protein molecules cross the relevant membranes as a result of their own motion
- This was thought to be impossible at the time

Product Details

Publisher: CRC Press
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2019
Format: Publisher PDF
File Size: 100 MB
ISBN: 9780367074494