Jens Christian Skou (* 8 October 1918 in Lemvig) is a Danish physician and bio physicist. It kept 1997 common with John Ernest Walker and Paul Delos Boyer for its work on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to the Nobelpreis for chemistry.

Biography

Jens Christian Skou was born 1918 in Lemvig in west Jutland. It studied medicine at the university in Copenhagen and locked its study 1944. Afterwards it worked in hospitals in and Its graduation followed 1954 at Institut for physiology at the university in Aahrhus. 1963 it became at the same university the professor for physiology and remained there up to its retirement 1988.

Work

Like his colleagues Boyer and Walker busy itself Jens Christian Skou particularly with enzymes, which catalyze the work adenosine triphosphate, the main energy supplier in the Metabolismus of the organisms. It concentrated thereby particularly on the dismantling of the ATP during Boyer and Walker with the synthesis of the ATP by the enzyme ATP Synthase was concerned.

Already into the 1950er years looked Skou for an enzyme in the cell membrane of nerve cells, which makes the dismantling of the ATP. It discovered a transportation enzyme, which causes the transport of substances by the cell membrane, and ATP uses. It designated it as potassium sodium ATPase, since it transported the ions potassium and sodium and in this way for a stable Ruhemembranpotenzial of the cells provides. It could show that with these transportation procedures ATP it is enzymatically diminished and into Adenosindiphosphat (ADP) and a Phosphation is divided.

Related links

• Nobelpreis 1997 for chemistry
• Article of the University of Aarhus

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