Category: Biochemistry
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Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi – From Transylvania to Woods Hole (Vitamin C, Fumaric Acid, WWI, WWII, Vietnam War, Actin, Myosin, Muscles, Adrenal glands, Cancer, a Nobel prize, Apollonians and Dionysians, and something called the Constitution for the Federation of Earth)
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi[a] de Nagyrápolt (Hungarian: nagyrápolti Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II, and entered Hungarian politics after the…
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Peptidomimetic
A protein mimetic is a molecule such as a peptide, a modified peptide or any other molecule that biologically mimics the action or activity of some other protein. Protein mimetics are commonly used in drug design and discovery. Types of mimetics There are a number of different distinct classes of protein mimetics. A peptidomimetic is a small protein-like chain designed to mimic a peptide.[1] They typically…
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Phosphomimetics
A protein mimetic is a molecule such as a peptide, a modified peptide or any other molecule that biologically mimics the action or activity of some other protein. Protein mimetics are commonly used in drug design and discovery. Types of mimetics There are a number of different distinct classes of protein mimetics. PHOSPHOMIMETICS Phosphomimetics are amino acid substitutions that mimic a phosphorylated protein, thereby activating (or…