Harold Amos
American microbiologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Amos was an American microbiologist. He taught at Harvard Medical School for nearly fifty years and was the first African-American department chair of the school. Early life Amos was born in Pennsauken, New Jersey to Howard R. Amos Sr., a Philadelphia postman, and Iola Johnson. Iola Johnson was adopted and educated by a Philadelphia Quaker family. Due to the close relationship between Iola and the Quaker family, the Amos family received a lot of books, including a biography of Louis Pasteur. Excelling as a student, Amos graduated in 1936 at the top of his class from Camden High School in New Jersey. He attended Springfield College in Massachusetts on a full academic scholarship. In 1941 he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology as a chemistry minor. He was drafted the following year, and after returning home from WWII in 1946, Amos began his graduate studies at Harvard University. He was the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from the Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, in 1952.
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- Minority faculty and academic rank in medicine. (1998) (161)
- Secretion of a nerve growth factor by primary chick fibroblast cultures. (1975) (118)
- Enhancement of hexose entry into chick fibroblasts by starvation: differential effect on galactose and glucose. (1972) (97)
- Hydrocortisone requirement for the induction of glutamine synthetase in chick-embryo retinas. (1968) (88)
- Protamine enhancement of RNA uptake by cultured chick cells (1961) (73)
- The isolation of polyadenylate with unreacted cellulose. (1972) (60)
- Transport of sugars in chick-embryo fibroblasts. Evidence for a low-affinity system and a high-affinity system for glucose transport. (1976) (56)
- Insulin Dependence of Cells in Primary Culture: Influence on Ribosome Integrity (1968) (55)
- INFLUENCE OF BACTERIAL RIBONUCLEIC ACID ON ANIMAL CELLS IN CULTURE. II. PROTAMINE ENHANCEMENT OF RNA UPTAKE. (1963) (48)
- mRNA half-life measured by use of actinomycin D in animal cells — A caution (1966) (48)
- Insulin stimulation of glucose entry in chick fibroblasts and HeLa cells. (1973) (46)
- Arrested Protein Synthesis in Polysomes of Cultured Chick Embryo Cells (1966) (46)
- 5-Methyl cytosine in the RNA of Escherichia coli. (1958) (41)
- Rapid loss of ATP by tumor cells deprived of glucose: contrast to normal cells. (1978) (37)
- INFLUENCE OF BACTERIAL RIBONUCLEIC ACID ON ANIMAL CELLS IN CULTURE.I. STIMULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. (1963) (35)
- Synthesis of ‘Bacterial’ Protein by Cultured Chick Cells (1962) (33)
- Purine nucleotide excretion by Escherichia coli in the presence of streptomycin. (1960) (33)
- RNA METABOLISM IN HELA CELLS AT REDUCED TEMPERATURE (1971) (28)
- THE INACTIVATION OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS BY PHOSPHATASE ENZYMES (1953) (27)
- STIMULATION BY INSULIN OF RNA SYNTHESIS IN CHICK FIBROBLASTS (1974) (26)
- Deoxyribonucleic acid breakdown and resynthesis in T5 bacteriophage infection. (1958) (26)
- Modifications of mammalian cell surfaces induced by sugars: Scanning electron microscopy (1976) (26)
- Starvation, deoxy-sugars, ouabain, and ATP metabolism in normal and malignant cells. (1982) (24)
- Alteration of phosphorylation of ribosomal proteins as a function of variation of growth conditions of primary cells. (1971) (23)
- Xylose and Xylitol (1978) (23)
- EFFECT OF ACTINOMYCIN D AND CHLORAMPHENICOL ON PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN CHICK FIBROBLASTS. (1964) (22)
- Noncoordinate control of RNA synthesis in eucaryotic cells. (1974) (21)
- A RACEMASE FOR THREONINE IN ESCHERICHIA COLI (1954) (21)
- Amino acid utilization in bacterial growth. II. A study of threonine-isoleucine relationships in mutants of Escherichia coli. (1954) (20)
- Xylose and Xylitol. Metabolism, physiology and nutritional value. (1978) (19)
- Transport enhancement and reversal: Glucose and 3‐O‐methyl glucose (1977) (19)
- Ribonucleic acid synthesis and transport in animal cells at 27°C (1970) (19)
- EFFECT OF PENTAMIDINE ON THE GROWTH OF ESCHERICHIA COLI (1957) (19)
- A dialyzable inducer for the glutamotransferase of chick embryo retina. (1966) (18)
- Regulation of glucose carriers in chick fibroblasts. (1977) (16)
- D-Xylose and xylitol: previously unrecognized sole carbon and energy sources for chick and mammalian cells. (1976) (16)
- Effects of pyruvate on the growth of normal and transformed hamster embryo fibroblasts (1982) (15)
- Lysozyme: evidence for effects on chick fibroblasts, HeLa cells, and their products. (1975) (14)
- Regulation of glucose transport in chick fibroblasts: Bicarbonate, lactate and ascorbic acid (1976) (14)
- Evidence for a "governor" on protein synthesis in animal cells: positive signals in serum. (1967) (13)
- ANOMALOUS STIMULATION OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS: EVIDENCE FOR TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL IN PRIMARY CELLS (1971) (13)
- RNA METABOLISM IN HELA CELLS AT REDUCED TEMPERATURE (1972) (13)
- Uridine as precursor of bacteriophage thymidylic acid. (1957) (13)
- Inhibition of influenza virus synthesis by 2-thiouracil. (1958) (11)
- Growth of chick and mammalian cells on d-xylose: effects on sugar transport. (1977) (11)
- Regulation of the G1 → S phase transition in chick embryo fibroblasts with α‐keto acids and L‐alanine (1979) (11)
- Purines as 'hyper-repressors' of glucose transport. A role for phosphoribosyl diphosphate. (1983) (10)
- Metabolic effects of glucose starvation in animal cell cultures. (1975) (9)
- Heat-shock treatment lethal for mammalian cells deprived of glucose and glutamine: protection by alpha-keto acids. (1985) (9)
- Transaminase inhibitors block glycolysis and G1 to S phase progression in chick embryo fibroblasts: Reversal by α‐keto acids (1984) (9)
- Induction of glutamine synthetase by urea. (1969) (8)
- Glutamine synthetase: Failure of induction by hydrocortisone at 27°C (1968) (8)
- Adsorption of polyadenylate and other polynucleotides to unmodified cellulose. (1973) (8)
- Nuclear-cytoplasmic exchange of RNA and protein: effect of temperature and serum. (1970) (8)
- Effects of naturally occurring sugars on Ehrlich ascites tumor growth in mice. (1977) (7)
- Thiouridylic acid formation and bacterial growth. (1958) (7)
- Regulation of glucose utilization in chick embryo fibroblasts by bicarbonate ion (1981) (6)
- SUGAR COMPOSITION OF MAMMALIAN CELL SURFACE MEMBRANE: A FUNCTION OF CARBON SOURCE (1978) (6)
- NUCLEAR BINDING OF EXOGENOUS HISTONES BY L CELLS AT LOW pH (1968) (5)
- Protein Synthesis in Sonically Damaged Escherichia coli (1967) (5)
- Reactivation of NAD(H) biosynthetic pathway by exogenous NAD+ in nil cells severely depleted of NAD(H) (1983) (4)
- ACCELERATED BACTERIOPHAGE SYNTHESIS IN PENTAMIDINE-TREATED ESCHERICHIA COLI (1957) (4)
- Introduction to cell to cell communication (1970) (3)
- Fibroblast susceptibility to β-adrenergic stimulants (1978) (2)
- Deprival of nicotinamide leads to enhanced glucose transport in chick embryo fibroblasts. (1984) (2)
- EVIDENCE FOR MESSENGER ACTIVITY OF ALIEN RIBONUCLEIC ACID IN CHICK CELLS. (1964) (2)
- Nitrogen-15 nuclear magnetic resonance of the amorphous polymer of lysine-formaldehyde-urea (1981) (1)
- Carbon-13 NMR of the amorphous polymer of lysine-formaldehyde-urea (1979) (1)
- Regulation of the G1 leads to S phase transition in chick embryo fibroblasts with alpha-keto acids and L-alanine. (1979) (1)
- Stabilizing Effect of Amino Acids on Bacteriophage Tlr∗ (1954) (1)
- Hexose transport derepressed and refractory to purine regulation in NAD(H)‐depleted Nil cells (1984) (1)
- A putative “ribonucleic acid migration factor” in serum (1970) (1)
- Counter-transport in chick embryo fibroblasts. A significant factor in measurement of glucose entry. (1982) (1)
- Studies on the irreversible adsorption of T1 bacteriophage. (1957) (1)
- Attracting Minorities to Science (1998) (1)
- Ribonucleic AcidSynthesis andTransport inAnimalCells at27°C (1970) (0)
- Fibroblast susceptibility to beta-adrenergic stimulants. (1978) (0)
- Ribonucleic acid synthesis and transport in animal cells at 27 degrees C. (1970) (0)
- NUCLEAR BINDING OF EXOGENOUS HISTONES BY L CELLS AT LOW pH. (1968) (0)
- Contributions Minority Faculty and Academic Rank in Medicine (2000) (0)
- Basic science and public policy. (1977) (0)
- Glutamine synthetase: failure of induction of hydrocortisone at 27 degrees C. (1968) (0)
- Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis and Transport in Animal Cells at 27 ° C By MICHEL HORISBERGER (0)
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