Open AccessYasutomi Nishizuka: Father of protein kinase C
Author(s) -
Saori Nakamura,
Hirohei Yamamura
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1756-2651
pISSN - 0021-924X
DOI - 10.1093/jb/mvq066
Subject(s) - protein kinase c , protein kinase a , epoch (astronomy) , tryptophan metabolism , kinase , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , tryptophan , computer science , computer vision , amino acid , stars
It is 6 years since we received the tragic news that our great mentor Dr Yasutomi Nishizuka passed away suddenly at the age of 72 years. Dr Nishizuka made several epoch-making discoveries in his life, e.g. the tryptophan metabolism, protein synthesis, ADP-ribosylation, regulation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and discovery of protein kinase C (PKC). Among them his name will be remembered for a long time as a father of PKC, momentous discoveries in the twentieth century, which are still actively pursued by many laboratories worldwide.
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