Protein chemistry may be defined as the study of the structure and chemical properties of proteins.
Keywords: proteins; polypeptides; amino acids; macromolecules
History of Protein Chemistry
Graeme K Hunter, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Published online: February 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003464
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| Fruton JS (1979) Early theories of protein structure. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 325: 1–18. | |
| proceedings Fruton JS (1985) Contrasts in scientific style. Emil Fischer and Franz Hofmeister: their research groups and their theory of protein structure. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 129: 313–370. | |
| Geison GL (1969) The protoplasmic theory of life and the vitalist–mechanist debate. Isis 60: 273–292. | |
| Glas E (1983) Bio-science between experiment and ideology, 1835–50. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 14: 39–57. | |
| book Judson HF (1979) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. New York: Simon and Schuster. | |
| Olby RC (1985) The ‘mad pursuit’: X-ray crystallographers’ search for the structure of haemoglobin. History and Philosophy of Life Science 7: 171–193. | |
| Tanford C and Reynolds J (1999) Protein chemists bypass the colloid/macromolecule debate. Ambix 46: 33–51. | |
| book Teich M and Needham DM (1992) A Documentary History of Biochemistry. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Universities Press. | |
| Vickery HB and Schmidt CLA (1931) The history of the discovery of the amino acids. Chemical Reviews 9: 169–318. | |
