Discovered a beforehand unidentified class of biological compounds - acyl adenylates - intermediates in the configuration of fatty acyl-CoAs from fatty acids, ATP and CoA. This kind of reaction, I discovered, was also central to the way amino acids are activated as amino-acyl adenylates prior to being linked to tRNAs. By then, I was making the slow change from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming more and more preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are complete.
Name = Paul Berg
Born = Born in Brooklyn
achivements = Position as the head of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Human Genome Project..
