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Sidney Colowick

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Sidney Paul Colowick
Born(1916-01-12)January 12, 1916
St. Louis, Missouri
DiedJanuary 9, 1985(1985-01-09) (aged 68)
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
EducationWashington University in St. Louis
Washington University School of Medicine
Known forFounding editor of Methods in Enzymology
Spouses1. Grace Shaffel; 2. Maryda Swanstrom
Children4
AwardsEli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
InstitutionsWashington University School of Medicine
University of Illinois
Johns Hopkins University
Vanderbilt University
Doctoral advisorCarl Cori
Notable studentsPaul Greengard

Sidney Paul Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist, known for many contributions to metabolic biochemistry, especially glycogen metabolism,[1] and as founding editor, with Nathan Kaplan, of the book series Methods in Enzymology.[2][3]

Career

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Colowick studied at Washington University in St. Louis (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) and Washington University School of Medicine and had his first academic appointment there.[4][3] Subsequently, he worked at the Public Health Research Institute of New York City. He was associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1950, and Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1950 to 1959.[3] In 1959 he moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,[3] as American Cancer Society–Charles Hayden Foundation Professor of Microbiology from 1959 until 1985.

He was particularly known for his work on hexokinase[5] and the regulation of hexose transport in cultured animal cells.[3] He also worked on coenzymes such as NADH ("TPNH2").[6]

He received the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (1947), and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969), and the National Academy of Sciences (1972).[3]

Personal life

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Sidney Colowick was born on January 12, 1916, in St. Louis, MO.[1] He married Grace Shaffel in 1943, with whom he had one son, and later Maryda Swanstrom in 1951, with whom he had three daughters. He died in Nashville, Tennessee on January 9, 1985.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Academy of Sciences".
  2. ^ "Methods in Enzymology | Book series | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Sidney P. Colowick Papers".
  4. ^ "Sidney P. Colowick". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
  5. ^ Berger, L.; Slein, M. W.; Colowick, S. P.; Cori, C. (1946). "Isolation of hexokinase from bakers' yeast". J. Gen. Physiol. 20 (6): 379–391. doi:10.1085/jgp.29.6.379. PMC 2142805. PMID 19873467. S2CID 14527377.
  6. ^ Pullman, M. E.; Sanpietro, A.; Colowick, S. P. (1954). "On the structure of reduced diphosphopyridine nucleotide". J. Biol. Chem. 206 (1): 129–141. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)71303-3. PMID 13130534.