Robert Abeles
Robert Abeles · Science & Medicine
Biochemist known for enzyme reaction mechanisms and mechanism-based (suicide) inhibitors
1926, Vienna, Austria — 2000, United States
Austria · United States
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Robert Heinz Abeles was a biochemist who did pioneering work on enzyme reaction mechanisms and helped introduce mechanism-based ('suicide') inhibitors, which selectively inactivate an enzyme by exploiting its own catalytic chemistry. With William Jencks he built Brandeis University into a leading center for chemical biochemistry. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1939.
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Biochemist known for enzyme reaction mechanisms and mechanism-based (suicide) inhibitors
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