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Important People in Enzymes-test 2
person | signifigance |
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Louis Pasteur | middle 1800's- Fermentation of sugars into ethanol in yeast |
Eduard(Nobel) and Hans Buchner | 1897- Fermentation of sugars into ethanol in yeast extracts |
James Sumner (Nobel) | 1926- First person to show enzymes are proteins and first person to crystallize an enzyme (urease) |
Emil Fischer (Nobel) | 1890- Proposed "lock and key" model explaining enzyme/substrate relationship, first model explaining how enzyme works |
Daniel Koshland | 1958- Improved upon Fischer's model with his "Induced Fit " model: substrate binding induces conformational changes esp. in the active site |
Leonor Michaelis and Maud Menten | First two scientists to derive model describing enzyme kinetics. |