Swedish 8 oktober 2003 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi år 2003 ”för upptäckter rörande kanaler i cellmembran” med hälften av priset till Peter Agre Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, ”för upptäckten av vattenkanaler” och den andra hälften till Roderick MacKinnon Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA ”för…

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003             Earlier Nobel Laureates of great importance in the development leading up to this year’s award:               1901 1909 1963 1991 1997 2003             1901 van’t Hoff receives the Nobel Prize in…

  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…

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…

  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…

  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,…