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Avram Hershko (Hebrew: אברהם הרשקו, born Herskó Ferenc, 31 December 1937) is an Israeli biologist. âHebrewâ redirects here. ...
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Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίοÏ, bio, life; and λÏγοÏ, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ...
Born in Karcag, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, Hungary, he received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph. D in 1969 from the Hadassah Faculty of Medicine in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Rappaport Family Institute for Research in Medical Sciences at the Technion in Haifa and Adjunct Professor of Pathology at New York University. Location of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in Hungary Karcag is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. ...
This article is about the modern county, for the historical one see Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok (former county). ...
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (â, Arabic: ) is one of Israels oldest, largest, and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ...
Computer Science Faculty Building The Technion â Israel Institute of Technology (â; commonly abbreviated as Technion IIT) is a university in Haifa, Israel, founded 1924. ...
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In 2000 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has a critical role in maintaining the homeostasis of cells and is believed to be involved in the development and progression of diseases such as: cancer, muscular and neurological diseases, immune and inflammatory responses. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded by the Lasker Foundation for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disease. ...
Aaron Ciechanover (××ר×× ×¦×× ××ר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist. ...
Irwin A. Rose (born 16 July 1926 in NY) is an American biologist. ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ...
Ubiquitin is a very conserved small regulatory protein that is ubiquitous in eukaryotes. ...
Proteolysis is the directed degradation (digestion) of proteins by cellular enzymes called proteases or by intramolecular digestion. ...
Honors and awards - 1987 - Weizmann Prize for Sciences (Israel)
- 1993 - Elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1994 - Israel Prize in Biochemistry and Medicine
- 1999 - Wachter Prize, by the University of Innsbruck, Austria (with A. Ciechanover)
- 1999 - Gairdner International Award, by the Gairdner Foundation, Canada (with A. Varshavsky)
- 2000 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 2001 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
- 2004 - Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. ...
Publications - Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., and Rose, I.A. (1979) "Resolution of the ATP-dependent proteolytic system from reticulocytes: A component that interacts with ATP". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, pp. 3107-3110.
- Hershko, A., Ciechanover, A., Heller, H., Haas, A.L., and Rose I.A. (1980) "Proposed role of ATP in protein breakdown: Conjugation of proteins with multiple chains of the polypeptide of ATP-dependent proteolysis". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77, pp. 1783-1786.
- Ciechanover, A., Elias, S., Heller, H. and Hershko, A. (1982) Covalent affinity purification of ubiquitin-activating enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 257, 2537-2542.
- Hershko, A., Heller, H., Elias, S. and Ciechanover, A. (1983) Components of ubiquitin-protein ligase system: resolution, affinity purification and role in protein breakdown. J. Biol. Chem. 258, 8206-8214.
- Hershko, A., Leshinsky, E., Ganoth, D. and Heller, H. (1984) ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitin-protein conjugates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81, 1619-1623.
- Hershko, A., Heller, H., Eytan, E. and Reiss, Y. (1986) The protein substrate binding site of the ubiquitin-protein ligase system. J. Biol. Chem. 261, 11992-11999.
- Ganoth, D., Leshinsky, E., Eytan, E., and Hershko, A. (1988) A multicomponent system that degrades proteins conjugated to ubiquitin. Resolution of components and evidence for ATP-dependent complex formation. J. Biol. Chem. 263, 12412-1241.
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| | | | Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureates | William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001) • John B. Fenn / Koichi Tanaka / Kurt Wüthrich (2002) • Peter Agre / Roderick MacKinnon (2003) • Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko / Irwin Rose (2004) • Robert H. Grubbs / Richard R. Schrock / Yves Chauvin (2005) • Roger D. Kornberg (2006) This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ...
Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ...
William S. Knowles (born June 1, 1917) is a American chemist. ...
Ryoji Noyori (éä¾è¯æ²») (born September 3, 1938) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. ...
Karl Barry Sharpless (born April 28, 1941) is a chemist renowned for his work on organometallic chemistry. ...
Dr. John B. Fenn Dr. John Bennett Fenn (born June 15, 1917 in New York City) is a research professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. ...
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Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. ...
Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who in 2003 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels. ...
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Roger D. Kornberg two days after his Nobel Prize was declared, at the felicitation at Stanford University held at Fairchild auditorium, in the same building complex where he works. ...
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