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Mortimer (Tim) Louis Anson (1901 – 16 October 1968) was an early protein scientist. He is famous for having proposed that protein folding was a reversible, two-state reaction, and for being the founding editor of the journal Advances in Protein Chemistry. ==Protein folding studies== Together with Alfred Mirsky, Anson was the first to propose that conformational protein folding was a reversible process. He later proposed that it was essentially a two-state process, i.e., that the folded and unfolded states were well-defined thermodynamic states separated by a large activation energy barrier. He also was the first to note that the energy barrier typical of folding (5 kcal/mol) was small compared to the absolute magnitudes of the energies and entropies involved (~100 kcal/mol) and, hence, proposed that energy and entropy were continuously traded off during the folding process. Anson moved to the Rockefeller Institute in 1927, where he remained for fifteen years (1927–1942). He worked closely with John H. Northrop. In 1937, Anson first purified and crystallized carboxypeptidase A, a classic model system of protein science. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mortimer Louis Anson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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