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Animations Animation: Water channels in cell membranes I Usage of these pictures and movies are subject to permission from Drs. Emad Tajkhorshid () and Klaus Schulten (). A reference to the original source is required (Tajkhorshid, E., Nollert, P., Jensen, M.O., Miercke, L.J., O’Connell, J., Stroud, R.M., and Schulten, K. (2002). Science 296, 525-530). Phone:…

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German 8. Oktober 2003 hat beschlossen, dass der Nobelpreis in Chemie des Jahres 2003 „für Entdeckungen bezüglich der Kanäle in Zellmembranen“ verliehen wird, mit der einen Hälfte des Preises an Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, U.S.A. „für die Entdeckung von Wasserkanälen“ und mit der anderen Hälfte an Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003           Roderick MacKinnon Roderick MacKinnon is Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University in New York, USA.   Ion channels: Tiny molecular machines     In 1998 Roderick MacKinnon for the first time determined at high resolution the structure of an…

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English 8 October 2003 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 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA “for the discovery of water channels” and one half of the prize to Roderick MacKinnon Howard…

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  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…

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  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…

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