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Reconstituted Sodium Pump - A Historical Account

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Document from the year 2024 in the subject Chemistry - Bio-chemistry, , language: English, abstract: The sodium pump, also called Na,K-ATPase (NKA) is a biomotor inserted in the membrane of all living cells; it extrudes sodium ions from the cell interior and replaces them with potassium ions. This is a fundamental and vital process. Furthermore, the sodium pump is also a receptor for pharmacological and toxicological compounds, such as the heart drug digitoxin and the arrow poison ouabain. Around 1974 it became possible to extract the sodium pump from the cell membrane and insert it into artificial phospholipid vesicles where it worked in the same way as in the cell. Now, the pump could be studied in its pure form on a molecular level. The author has been involved in this pioneering research and tells some fascinating stories concerning the first ultrastructural description of the reconstituted sodium pump in collaboration with specialists at Arhus University in Denmark and at Duke University in the US, and about the use of the reconstituted sodium pump for testing an unknown inhibitory compound in collaboration with Harvard Medical School.

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Als Naturwissenschaftlerin (Beatrice Maier Anner, Dr. pharm.), in Zürich geboren, habe ich 30 Jahre lang an der Universität Genf in Forschung und Lehre gearbeitet, dazu postdoktorale Ausbildung im Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA als Fogarty International Fellow und später 4-jährige Arbeit als eingeladene Dozentin an der Loma LInda University, CA, USA. Zurück in Genf, begann ich die Arbeit an einem grossen Familienarchiv, das ich von meinen Eltern geerbt hatte. Mein Urgrossvater Gustav Maier. am 6. Sept. 1844 als Jude in Ulm geboren, war nämlich ab 1895 der Förderer des jungen Albert Einsteins in Zürich, wo er ihm das Studium an der ETH ermöglichte. Danach wurde der Sohn von Gustav Maier, Dr. med. HW Maier, zum Arzt von Eduard Einstein, des erkrankten Sohnes von Albert Einstein. Zudem gibt es in der mütterlichen Meierhofer Familie auch dynamische Persönlichkeiten, wie Dr. med. Marie Meierhofer, die bekannte Kinderärztin. So habe ich jetzt einige Ahnen in Biographien mit Quellenmaterial aus meinem Privatarchiv und aus öffentlichen Archiven beschrieben.

Mehr Informationen über die Maiers, Meierhofers und Anners sind auf ihrer Website zusammengetragen: https://www.themaierannerfiles.ch/

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Authors Beatrice Maier Anner
Publisher Grin Verlag
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 20.04.2024
 
EAN 9783389016015
ISBN 978-3-389-01601-5
No. of pages 60
Dimensions 148 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
Weight 101 g
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Organic chemistry

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