Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for working out the mechanism by which the enzyme ATP synthase manufactures ATP, the molecule cells use to store and transfer chemical energy. He has served as Director of the Medical Research Council's Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountDetermining the crystal structure of the F1-ATPase catalytic region of ATP synthase, work that led to a share of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountHalifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England 1 In the Other Atlases
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Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
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Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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His landmark crystallographic studies of the F1-ATPase, the catalytic region of the ATP synthase (done in collaboration with crystallographer Andrew Leslie), from bovine heart mitochondria revealed the three catalytic sites in three different conformations imposed by the position of the asymmetric central stalk.
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