Gösta Pettersson (biochemist)
Gösta Pettersson is an emeritus professor in biochemistry at Lund University, Sweden. He was born in 1937 in Varberg, Sweden. He gained his Ph.D. at Lund University in 1966 on the basis of a thesis on toluquinones (natural products), and his early research was mainly concerned with fumigatin and other products of fungal metabolism.
Gösta Pettersson | |
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| Born | 24 November 1937 Varberg, Halland County, Sweden |
| Education | Lund University (Ph.D. 1966) |
| Known for | Alcohol dehydrogenase |
| Children | Ulf Ryde-Pettersson |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry (especially kinetics) |
| Institutions | Lund University, Sweden |
| Thesis | Studies on the biosynthesis of fungal toluquinones (1966) |
The turning point in Pettersson's career came in the wake of a kinetic study of an enzyme from Aspergillus fumigatus. This paper has had virtually no influence on the progress of biochemistry, having never been cited in half a century except for once by its author, but it marked the beginning of the work on enzymes and kinetics for which Pettersson is best known.
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