LIPMANN, Fritz Albert (1899 – 1986)
1899 – 1986
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Smithsonian Institution from United States · Portrait of Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986), Biochemist · No restrictions
1941 CE
#6898
Metabolic generation and utilization of phosphate bond energy.
In this paper about group potential and the transfer of acetyl and phosphoryl groups Lipmann proposed that acetyl phosphate acted as an acetyl door in the biosynthesis of essential metabolites and that ATP functioned …
1945 CE
#14284
Acetylation of sulfanilamide by liver homogenates and extracts.
Discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism. This discovery illuminated “the process by which cells make available the energy to drive their manufacturing processes” (Judson, p.…
1946 CE
#751.3
A common factor in the enzymatic acetylation of sulfanilamide and of choline.
Lipmann shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of coenzyme A, an important catalytic substance involved in the cellular conversion of food into energy. He first described the discovery…
1969 CE
#14142
Isolation of adenyl cyclase from Escherichia coli.
Lipmann and Tao isolated, purified, and characterized biochemically an enzyme which they called "adenyl cyclase." They stated that this enzyme is responsible for producing "cyclic AMP" in E. coli. Digital facsimile fr…