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| awards = David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics, [[University of Oxford]], 1990-2007<br>Hon Fellow Somerville College, Oxford, 1991-2012<br>Emeritus Fellow Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2008-2012<br>Fellow Diamond Light Source, 2008-2011<br>Hon DSc [[University of St Andrews]], 1992<br>Hon DSc [[University of Bath]], 2004<br>Hon DSc [[Imperial College London]], 2009<br>Hon DSc University of Cambridge, 2010<br>[[Fellow of the Royal Society]], 1990<br>Associate Fellow Third World Academy of Science, 2000<br>Foreign Associate American Academy of Sciences, 2011 |
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}}'''Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]], [[Royal Society|FRS]] (26 September 1940 - 25 September 2012<ref name=obit/>), was a British [[biochemist]] and protein [[crystallography|crystallographer]]. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular [[Biophysics]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor.<ref name="obituarynature">{{cite doi|10.1038/490488a}}</ref> |
}}'''Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson''', [[Order of the British Empire|DBE]], [[Royal Society|FRS]] (26 September 1940 - 25 September 2012<ref name=obit/>), was a British [[biochemist]] and protein [[crystallography|crystallographer]]. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular [[Biophysics]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor.<ref name="obituarynature">{{cite doi|10.1038/490488a}}</ref> |
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She attended Wimbledon High School for Girls from 1952 to 1959, where girls were encouraged to study science and to pursue useful careers. Her mother had read Biochemistry and Physiology at University College London in the 1930s and was suppportive of Johnson's decision to pursue a scientific career. She went to University College London in 1959 to read Physics and coming from an all-girls school, she was surprised to find herself one of only 4 girls, in a class of 40. She took theoretical physics as her third year option and graduated with a 2.1 degree. Whilst working at the Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, on neutron diffraction during one of her vacations, she met Dr. Uli Arndt, an instrument scientist, who worked at the Royal Institution, London. She was impressed by the work taking place there and in 1962 she moved to the Royal Institution to do a PhD in Biophysics. Her graduate supervisor was David Phillips, whose team was working on the crystal structure of lysozyme. Her first task was to determine the structure of a sugar molecule, N-acetylglucosamine, using x-ray diffraction, which she solved within a year. She then moved onto the study of the substrate binding to the protein lysozyme and was part of the team, that discovered the structure of the enzyme [[lysozyme]]; this was the third protein structure ever solved by x-ray crystallography, and the first enzyme. She gained her PhD in 1965 and went to the laboratory of Professor F.M. Richards at Yale University for a postdoctoral year in 1966. At Yale she worked as part of a team with [[Frederic M. Richards|Fred Richards]] and Hal Wyckoff on the crystal structure of another enzyme, ribonuclease, which was solved shortly after she left: the fourth protein structure solved.<ref>Louise N. Johnson, 'Clever Women', unpublished autobiographical notes, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson, at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford</ref> |
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After her postdoctoral year at Yale, she returned to the UK in 1967 and took up the post of Departmental Demonstrator in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The Professor of Zoology, J.W.R. Pringle, saw zoology as extending from animal studies to molecular studies, and had been partly responsible for bringing David Phillips to Oxford as Professor of Molecular Biophysics. Johnson was able to combine teaching with independent research and continued her work on lysozyme and new crystal studies on other enzymes. In 1972 she received some crystals of glycogen phosphorylase and this was the beginning of a major chapter in her research career. She began a detailed x-ray crystallographic analysis of the protein, which was eight times larger than lysozyme and much larger than any of the the other proteins whose structures had been solved at that time. In 1973 she was appointed University Lecturer, a post which was associated with Somerville College. She became an Additional Fellow of the college and the Janet Vaughan Lecturer. She was now able to expand her team of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The phosphorylase work developed and by 1978 the team had discovered its structure and were able to work on its biological control properties. Glycogen phosphorylase is found in muscle and is responsible for mobilising the energy store of glycogen to provide fuel to sustain muscle contraction. In resting muscle the enzyme is switched off to prevent wasteful degradation of the fuel but in response to nervous or hormonal signals the enzyme is switched on almost simultaneously to generate the energy supply. Her research was directed towards understanding the molecular basiss of the biological properties of control and catalytic mechanism. Her team used the bright x-ray source generated at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, which provided data that could not be obtained with the home source.<ref>Louise N. Johnson, 'Clever Women', unpublished autobiographical notes, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson, at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford</ref> She was David Phillips Professor in Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, 1990-2007. |
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| ⚫ | She was a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]] and an Honorary Fellow of [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]].<ref>{{cite book|page=203|chapter=Professors Emeritus|title=University of Oxford Calendar 2009–2010|author=University of Oxford|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-956692-1}}</ref> |
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Johnson's lab at Oxford solved and studied many other protein structures, and she is a depositor on 100 PDB entries including many forms of [[glycogen phosphorylase]]<ref>{{cite doi| 10.1038/340609a0 }}</ref> and of [[cell cycle]] CDK/cyclin complexes<ref>{{cite pmid|15660127}}</ref> Together with [[Tom Blundell]], she wrote an influential textbook on protein crystallography.<ref>{{citation |author=Blundell TL, Johnson LN |title=Protein Crystallography |year=1976 |publisher=Academic Press |ISBN=0121083500}}</ref> She was Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source, 2003-2008, and was a Fellow of Diamond Light Source, 2008-2012. Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron facility at Harwell, Oxfordshire.<ref>[http://www.diamond.ac.uk Diamond Light Source]</ref> |
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| ⚫ | She was a [[Oxbridge Fellow|Fellow]] of [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]] and an Honorary Fellow of [[Somerville College, Oxford|Somerville College]].<ref>{{cite book|page=203|chapter=Professors Emeritus|title=University of Oxford Calendar 2009–2010|author=University of Oxford|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-956692-1}}</ref> She received a number of honorary degrees, including: Hon DSc [[University of St Andrews]], 1992; Hon DSc [[University of Bath]], 2004; Hon DSc [[Imperial College London]], 2009; Hon DSc [[University of Cambridge]], 2010. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1990; an Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science, 2000; a Foreign Associate of the US [[National Academy of Sciences]], 2011.<ref>Order of Service for Louise Johnson, 2012, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford</ref><ref name="TelegraphObituary">{{cite web |
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She was part of the team, begun by [[William Lawrence Bragg]] and later led by [[David Chilton Phillips|David Phillips]], that discovered the structure of the enzyme [[lysozyme]];<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000004198|publisher=[[Royal Institution of Great Britain]]|title=Lawrence Bragg and Lysozyme|year=2008|accessdate=23 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite doi|10.1038/206757a0}}</ref> this was the third protein structure ever solved by x-ray crystallography, and the first enzyme. She also worked with [[Frederic M. Richards|Fred Richards]] and Hal Wyckoff on the structure of ribonuclease S,<ref>{{cite PMID|603755}}</ref> the fourth protein structure solved. Johnson's own lab at Oxford solved and studied many other protein structures, and she is a depositor on 100 PDB entries including many forms of [[glycogen phosphorylase]]<ref>{{cite doi| 10.1038/340609a0 }}</ref> and of [[cell cycle]] CDK/cyclin complexes<ref>{{cite pmid|15660127}}</ref> Together with [[Tom Blundell]], she wrote an influential textbook on protein crystallography.<ref>{{citation |author=Blundell TL, Johnson LN |title=Protein Crystallography |year=1976 |publisher=Academic Press |ISBN=0121083500}}</ref> |
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Johnson married the theoretical physicist, [[Abdus Salam]] in 1968. He later shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for his work on electroweak unification. They had two children: a son born in 1974 and a daughter born in 1982. She died on 25 September 2012 in Cambridge, England.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/in-memoriam-louise-johnson.aspx |title=ICTP - In Memoriam |publisher=Ictp.it |date=1940-09-26 |accessdate=2012-10-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Tom Blundell |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/10/louise-johnson |title=Dame Louise Johnson obituary | Science | guardian.co.uk |publisher=Guardian |date= |accessdate=2012-10-10}}</ref> |
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Louise Napier Johnson | |
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| Born | September 26, 1940 |
| Died | September 25, 2012 (aged 71) |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Known for | Discovering the structure of lysozyme and N-Acetylglucosamine[1] |
| Spouse | Abdus Salam |
| Awards | David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, 1990-2007 Hon Fellow Somerville College, Oxford, 1991-2012 Emeritus Fellow Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 2008-2012 Fellow Diamond Light Source, 2008-2011 Hon DSc University of St Andrews, 1992 Hon DSc University of Bath, 2004 Hon DSc Imperial College London, 2009 Hon DSc University of Cambridge, 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society, 1990 Associate Fellow Third World Academy of Science, 2000 Foreign Associate American Academy of Sciences, 2011 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Phillips |
Professor Dame Louise Napier Johnson, DBE, FRS (26 September 1940 - 25 September 2012[2]), was a British biochemist and protein crystallographer. She was David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the University of Oxford from 1990 to 2007, and later an emeritus professor.[3]
Education
She attended Wimbledon High School for Girls from 1952 to 1959, where girls were encouraged to study science and to pursue useful careers. Her mother had read Biochemistry and Physiology at University College London in the 1930s and was suppportive of Johnson's decision to pursue a scientific career. She went to University College London in 1959 to read Physics and coming from an all-girls school, she was surprised to find herself one of only 4 girls, in a class of 40. She took theoretical physics as her third year option and graduated with a 2.1 degree. Whilst working at the Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, on neutron diffraction during one of her vacations, she met Dr. Uli Arndt, an instrument scientist, who worked at the Royal Institution, London. She was impressed by the work taking place there and in 1962 she moved to the Royal Institution to do a PhD in Biophysics. Her graduate supervisor was David Phillips, whose team was working on the crystal structure of lysozyme. Her first task was to determine the structure of a sugar molecule, N-acetylglucosamine, using x-ray diffraction, which she solved within a year. She then moved onto the study of the substrate binding to the protein lysozyme and was part of the team, that discovered the structure of the enzyme lysozyme; this was the third protein structure ever solved by x-ray crystallography, and the first enzyme. She gained her PhD in 1965 and went to the laboratory of Professor F.M. Richards at Yale University for a postdoctoral year in 1966. At Yale she worked as part of a team with Fred Richards and Hal Wyckoff on the crystal structure of another enzyme, ribonuclease, which was solved shortly after she left: the fourth protein structure solved.[4]
Career
After her postdoctoral year at Yale, she returned to the UK in 1967 and took up the post of Departmental Demonstrator in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. The Professor of Zoology, J.W.R. Pringle, saw zoology as extending from animal studies to molecular studies, and had been partly responsible for bringing David Phillips to Oxford as Professor of Molecular Biophysics. Johnson was able to combine teaching with independent research and continued her work on lysozyme and new crystal studies on other enzymes. In 1972 she received some crystals of glycogen phosphorylase and this was the beginning of a major chapter in her research career. She began a detailed x-ray crystallographic analysis of the protein, which was eight times larger than lysozyme and much larger than any of the the other proteins whose structures had been solved at that time. In 1973 she was appointed University Lecturer, a post which was associated with Somerville College. She became an Additional Fellow of the college and the Janet Vaughan Lecturer. She was now able to expand her team of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The phosphorylase work developed and by 1978 the team had discovered its structure and were able to work on its biological control properties. Glycogen phosphorylase is found in muscle and is responsible for mobilising the energy store of glycogen to provide fuel to sustain muscle contraction. In resting muscle the enzyme is switched off to prevent wasteful degradation of the fuel but in response to nervous or hormonal signals the enzyme is switched on almost simultaneously to generate the energy supply. Her research was directed towards understanding the molecular basiss of the biological properties of control and catalytic mechanism. Her team used the bright x-ray source generated at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, which provided data that could not be obtained with the home source.[5] She was David Phillips Professor in Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, 1990-2007.
Johnson's lab at Oxford solved and studied many other protein structures, and she is a depositor on 100 PDB entries including many forms of glycogen phosphorylase[6] and of cell cycle CDK/cyclin complexes[7] Together with Tom Blundell, she wrote an influential textbook on protein crystallography.[8] She was Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source, 2003-2008, and was a Fellow of Diamond Light Source, 2008-2012. Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron facility at Harwell, Oxfordshire.[9]
Honours
She was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.[10] She received a number of honorary degrees, including: Hon DSc University of St Andrews, 1992; Hon DSc University of Bath, 2004; Hon DSc Imperial College London, 2009; Hon DSc University of Cambridge, 2010. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1990; an Associate Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science, 2000; a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, 2011.[11][12]
Personal life
Johnson married the theoretical physicist, Abdus Salam in 1968. He later shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for his work on electroweak unification. They had two children: a son born in 1974 and a daughter born in 1982. She died on 25 September 2012 in Cambridge, England.[2][13]
References
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|doi=10.1038/202588a0instead. - ^ a b "ICTP - In Memoriam". Ictp.it. 1940-09-26. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1038/490488a, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with
|doi=10.1038/490488ainstead. - ^ Louise N. Johnson, 'Clever Women', unpublished autobiographical notes, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson, at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- ^ Louise N. Johnson, 'Clever Women', unpublished autobiographical notes, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson, at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi: 10.1038/340609a0 , please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with
|doi= 10.1038/340609a0instead. - ^ Attention: This template ({{cite pmid}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by PMID 15660127, please use {{cite journal}} with
|pmid=15660127instead. - ^ Blundell TL, Johnson LN (1976), Protein Crystallography, Academic Press, ISBN 0121083500
- ^ Diamond Light Source
- ^ University of Oxford. "Professors Emeritus". University of Oxford Calendar 2009–2010. Oxford University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-19-956692-1.
- ^ Order of Service for Louise Johnson, 2012, deposited with the papers of L.N. Johnson at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- ^ Staff (8 October 2012). "Obituaries: Professor Dame Louise Johnson". The Telegraph (UK). Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ^ Tom Blundell. "Dame Louise Johnson obituary | Science | guardian.co.uk". Guardian. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
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