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Alexander E. Braunstein

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After his death, Braunstein was recognized by colleagues for his scientific leadership. His skill with languages was remembered as facilitating international meetings throughout his career, at a time when English was less established as the common language of scientific discourse. As well as
209:. In his early education he displayed a facility for learning languages, became interested in studying chemistry, and eventually began study in medicine in 1920 at the Kharkov State Medical Institute. He then moved to Moscow and received his Ph.D. under the supervision of 225:. In 1936, he moved to the A. M. Gorky Institute of Experimental Medicine. In 1945, after the end of World War II, he assumed leadership of a laboratory at the Institute of Biological and Medical Chemistry, under the auspices of the then-new 259:
in these reactions. Along with Maria Kritzman, Braunstein co-discovered the phenomenon of transamination and described its biological significance in a series of papers beginning in 1937. Later, Braunstein's and
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Cooper, AJ; Meister, A (April 1989). "An appreciation of Professor Alexander E. Braunstein. The discovery and scope of enzymatic transamination".
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biochemistry, the 1987 meeting in a regular series of international symposia on pyridoxal catalysis was dedicated to Braunstein's memory.
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Meister, Alton (1987). "Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Chemical and Biological Aspects of Vitamin B6 Catalysis".
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publishing in both Russian- and English-language scientific journals, Braunstein also translated scientific works.
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mechanism for enzymes dependent on the biologically active form of
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Schneider, Gunter; Käck, Helena; Lindqvist, Ylva (January 2000).
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Hackert, Martin L.; Miles, Edith W.; Reed, Lester J. (2009).
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Professor Alexander E. Braunstein; Some Reminiscences
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Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
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In recognition of his contributions to the study of
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Braunstein spent his early scientific career at the
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Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name
Kharkov
Kiev Governorate
Russian Empire
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
transamination
vitamin B6
Biochemistry
enzymology
Doctoral advisor
Vladimir Engelgardt
biochemist
enzymatic
transamination
vitamin B6
Esmond Emerson Snell
Kharkiv
ophthalmologist
Vladimir Engelgardt
People's Commissariat of Health
USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
enzymatic
transamination
vitamin B6
pyridoxal phosphate
cofactor

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