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Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg

Stanford University · Biochemistry

Active 1942–2012

h-index114
Citations43.8k
Papers361
Funding$11.2M

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Arthur Kornberg was a prominent figure in the Stanford University Department of Biochemistry, serving as Chair and Professor from 1959 to 1969, and as Professor until 1988. He is recognized for his significant contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology, with a career spanning several decades at Stanford University School of Medicine. Kornberg's work has been influential in advancing understanding of biochemical processes, although specific research focus areas are not detailed in the provided text. He is now listed as Emeritus since 1988, indicating his retirement from active faculty duties. His legacy includes a long-standing association with Stanford and a distinguished career in scientific research and education.

Research topics

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular biology
  • Microbiology

Selected publications

  • Inorganic Polyphosphate: Essential for Growth and Survival

    Annual Review of Biochemistry · 2009-04-03 · 790 citations

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    Inorganic polyphosphate (Poly P) is a polymer of tens to hundreds of phosphate residues linked by "high-energy" phosphoanhydride bonds as in ATP. Found in abundance in all cells in nature, it is unique in its likely role in the origin and survival of species. Here, we present extensive evidence that the remarkable properties of Poly P as a polyanion have made it suited for a crucial role in the emergence of cells on earth. Beyond that, Poly P has proved in a variety of ways to be essential for g…

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  • Inorganic polyphosphate in the origin and survival of species

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004-11-01 · 323 citations

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    Inorganic polyphosphate (poly P), in chains of tens to hundreds of phosphate residues, linked by high-energy bonds, is environmentally ubiquitous and abundant. In prebiotic evolution it could have provided a flexible, polyanionic scaffold to assemble macromolecules. It has been conserved in every cell in nature. In prokaryotes, a major poly P synthetic enzyme is poly P kinase 1 (PPK1), which is found in 100 bacterial genomes, including numerous pathogens. Null mutants of PPK1, with low poly P le…

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  • A polyphosphate kinase (PPK2) widely conserved in bacteria

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002-12-16 · 246 citations

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    Synthesis of inorganic polyphosphate (poly P) from the terminal phosphate of ATP is catalyzed reversibly by poly P kinase (PPK, now designated PPK1) initially isolated from Escherichia coli. PPK1 is highly conserved in many bacteria, including some of the major pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In a null mutant of P. aeruginosa lacking ppk1, we have discovered a previously uncharacterized PPK activity (designated PPK2) distinguished from PPK1 by the following: synthesis of poly P from GT…

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  • Inorganic polyphosphate stimulates mammalian TOR, a kinase involved in the proliferation of mammary cancer cells

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003-09-11 · 198 citations

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    Inorganic polyphosphate (poly P), chains of hundreds of phosphate residues linked by "high-energy" bonds as in ATP, has been conserved from prebiotic times in all cells. Poly P is essential for a wide variety of functions in bacteria, including virulence in pathogens. In this study, we observe the unique and many-fold stimulation by poly P in vitro of the protein kinase mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin). To explore the role of poly P in mammalian cells, a yeast polyphosphatase, PPX1, was inse…

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  • The long and short of it – polyphosphate, PPK and bacterial survival

    Trends in Biochemical Sciences · 2008-05-17 · 186 citations

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Education

  • Ph.D., Biochemistry

    California Institute of Technology

    1947

  • B.S., Chemistry

    California Institute of Technology

    1940

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