Tom Rapoport
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Humboldt University | |
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Known for | Early development of metabolic control analysis; the endoplasmic reticulum |
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Relatives | Michael Rapoport (brother) |
Tom Abraham Rapoport (born June 17, 1947)
Biography
Rapoport was born in Cincinnati in 1947.
In 1979 he moved to the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie der
He studies several aspects of cellular secretion, including the mechanisms by which newly synthesized proteins are translocated from the
Selected research articles
- Voeltz, GK; Prinz WA; Shibata Y; Rist JM; Rapoport TA (10 February 2006). "A class of membrane proteins shaping the tubular endoplasmic reticulum". Cell. 124 (3): 573–586. S2CID 12760025.
- Ye, Y; Shibata Y; Yun C; Ron D; Rapoport TA (24 June 2004). "A membrane protein complex mediates retro-translocation from the ER lumen into the cytosol". Nature. 429 (6994): 841–847. S2CID 4317750.
- Van den Berg B, Clemons WM Jr, Collinson I, Modis Y, Hartmann E, Harrison SC, Rapoport TA (1 January 2003). "X-ray structure of a protein-conducting channel". Nature. 427 (6969): 36–44. S2CID 4360143.
- Görlich, D; Rapoport TA (19 November 1993). "Protein translocation into proteoliposomes reconstituted from purified components of the endoplasmic reticulum membrane". Cell. 75 (4): 615–630. PMID 8242738.
- Heinrich, R; Rapoport TA (15 February 1974). "A linear steady-state treatment of enzymatic chains. General properties, control and effector strength". Eur. J. Biochem. 42 (1): 89–95. PMID 4830198.
Awards
- 2004 Awarded Otto Warburg Medal of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 2005 Awarded Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.[4]
- 2007 Sir Hans Krebs Medal
- 2011 Awarded the Leopoldina[5]
References
- ^ a b "Tom Abraham Rapoport". Berlin-Brandenbergische Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German). Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ PMID 16186492.
- ^ Rapoport, Tom. "Reinhart Heinrich — An Unassuming Intellectual Giant". Journal of Theoretical Biology. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ "Harvard Biochemist Tom Rapoport Awarded Max Delbrück Medal in Berlin". Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch. 1 December 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
- ^ "Leopoldina ehrt den Zellbiologen Tom Rapoport mit der Schleiden-Medaille (13.09.2011)". Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina (in German). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
External links
- Profile at Harvard Medical School
- Profile at the HHMI
- Rapoport laboratory website
- Rapoport, Tom A. (15 November 2010). "A Preliminary Report on My Life in Science". Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21 (22). American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB): 3770–3772. PMID 21079005.
- NIH Seminar Series, Mechanisms of Protein Translocation Across Membranes, May 20, 2009 on YouTube