Daniel Arnon gets isolated chloroplasts to make ATP out of light. Melvin Calvin, Andrew Benson and James Bassham feed radioactive carbon dioxide to algae and trace, one compound at a time, the path carbon takes into sugar. Bessel Kok counts the flashes of light it takes to release a single molecule of oxygen. Johann Deisenhofer and Hartmut Michel crystallize a membrane protein everyone had said could not be crystallized, and win the first atomic picture of a photosynthetic reaction center.

Season Two of We Are Biochemistry is the people behind the pathways, drawn from The Molecule Hunters, the book written by more than five hundred University of Virginia students.

Pairs with Biochemistrypedia Chapter 22, Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions - biochemistrypedia.com

The full book, its sources, and the individual student credits are free at deppmannlab.com, where the corrections form also takes audiobook pronunciation fixes.

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Albert Lehninger pins oxidative phosphorylation to the mitochondrion. Peter Mitchell proposes that a cell's energy is stored as a difference in protons across a membrane, is told for the better part of two decades that this is theology rather than biochemistry, restores a manor house with his own hands while he waits, and is finally proved right. Paul Boyer works out that the enzyme making ATP does so by turning, and John Walker's crystals show the turning parts. Nathan Kaplan and Philip Handler build the field around them.

Season Two of We Are Biochemistry is the people behind the pathways, drawn from The Molecule Hunters, the book written by more than five hundred University of Virginia students.

Pairs with Biochemistrypedia Chapter 21, The Proton-Motive Force and ATP Synthase - biochemistrypedia.com

The full book, its sources, and the individual student credits are free at deppmannlab.com, where the corrections form also takes audiobook pronunciation fixes.

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Carl and Gerty Cori take the body's vaguest mystery, what becomes of sugar, and reduce it to a cycle running between muscle and liver - work she did as an unpaid research associate at a fraction of his salary, until they shared the Nobel Prize. Sidney Colowick comes up through their laboratory and helps turn enzymology into a discipline with standard methods. Luis Federico Leloir finds the sugar nucleotides, and with them how a body builds glycogen rather than merely spending it.

Season Two of We Are Biochemistry is the people behind the pathways, drawn from The Molecule Hunters, the book written by more than five hundred University of Virginia students.

Pairs with Biochemistrypedia Chapter 19, The Citric Acid Cycle: Harvesting Electrons - biochemistrypedia.com

The full book, its sources, and the individual student credits are free at deppmannlab.com, where the corrections form also takes audiobook pronunciation fixes.

Narrated by a digital voice.