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American biochemist
Barbara Illingworth Brown was an American biochemist. She worked primarily at
Washington University in St. Louis .
Education and career
Brown was born in Hartford, Connecticut and later moved to Pennsylvania when her father's job in insurance moved the family.
[2] Brown graduated from
Smith College in 1946. She worked with
Jane Anne Russell at
Yale University
[2] and received her PhD in physiological chemistry in 1950.
[3]
[4] Following her Ph.D., Brown applied to work with the Nobel Prize-winner
Gerty Cori
[2] and became a Research Associate Professor of Biochemistry at
Washington University in St. Louis and Established Investigator of the
American Heart Association .
[5] She later also worked with Cori's husband and fellow Nobel Prize winner
Carl Ferdinand Cori .
[2] She retired in 1989.
[2]
Brown served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council at the
National Institutes of Health from 1972 to 1974.
[6] She was awarded the
Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale in 1983.
[7]
Research
Her work was primarily devoted to the biochemistry of inherited metabolic diseases.
[1] She investigated the structure of
glycogen and
amylopectins ,
[2]
[8] and defined the pathway and mechanisms of
phosphorylase enzymes.
[9]
[10] Her research included the discovery of enzymes
[11] in a previously unknown pathway to process glycogen.
[12] She went on to research diseases related to the storage of glycogen where these enzymes were absent.
[13]
[14] She applied some of Carl Cori's findings to medical cases,
[15] and confirmed the second known case of
fructose bisphosphatase deficiency , a rare metabolic disorder, in 1970.
[16]
[17] She played a similar role in therapeutic research into
glycogen storage disease type I .
[18]
[19]
Personal life
Her husband, David H. Brown, was also a scientist and they collaborated on research on polysaccharide synthesis and glycogen storage diseases.
[2]
Selected publications
ILLINGWORTH, BARBARA A; RUSSELL, JANE A (1951).
"The Effects of Growth Hormone on Glycogen in Tissues of the Rat1" . Endocrinology . 48 (4): 423–434.
doi :
10.1210/endo-48-4-423 .
ISSN
0013-7227 .
OCLC
4631825308 .
PMID
14831545 .
Illingworth, Barbara; Jansz, Hendrik S.; Brown, David H.; Cori, Carl F. (1958-12-15).
"Observations on the Function of Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate in Phosphorylase" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 44 (12): 1180–1191.
Bibcode :
1958PNAS...44.1180I .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.44.12.1180 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
528705 .
PMID
16590330 .
Illingworth, Barbara; Brown, David H.; Cori, Carl F. (1961-04-01).
"The De Novo Synthesis of Polysaccharide by Phosphorylase" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 47 (4): 469–478.
Bibcode :
1961PNAS...47..469I .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.47.4.469 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
221475 .
PMID
13717528 .
Eberlein, Walter R; Illingworth, Barbara A; Sidbury, James B (1962).
"Heterogeneous glycogen storage disease in siblings and favorable response to synthetic androgen administration" . AJM the American Journal of Medicine . 33 (1): 20–26.
doi :
10.1016/0002-9343(62)90273-5 .
ISSN
0002-9343 .
OCLC
4922525423 .
PMID
13889017 .
Brown, Barbara Illingworth; Brown, David H (1966).
"Lack of an α -1,4-Glucan: α -1,4-Glucan 6-glycosyl Transferase in a Case of Type IV Glycogenosis" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 56 (2): 725–729.
Bibcode :
1966PNAS...56..725B .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.56.2.725 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
OCLC
5554094258 .
PMC
224432 .
PMID
5229990 .
References
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"Brown, Barbara "Bobbie" (Illingworth)" . madison.com . October 1, 2016.
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g Exton, John H. (2013). "Contributions of Barbara and David Brown".
Crucible of science : the story of the Cori laboratory . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 161–164.
ISBN
978-0-19-986108-8 .
OCLC
843881801 .
^ Illingworth, Barbara A (1950).
Effects of purified growth hormone on glycogen storage . New Haven.
OCLC
42655887 . {{
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"Wilbur Cross Medalists by Department" (PDF) . Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences .
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"Washington University School of Medicine Bulletin" . 1967.
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"Dr. Brown Appointed to Council" (PDF) . The NIH Record . 24 (4): 8. February 15, 1972.
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"List of Past Wilbur Cross Recipients | Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences" . gsas.yale.edu .
^ Illingworth, Barbara; Larner, Joseph; Cori, Gerty T. (1952-12-01).
"Structure of Glycogens and Amylopectins: I. Enzymatic Determination of Chain Length*" . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 199 (2): 631–640.
doi :
10.1016/S0021-9258(18)38501-6 .
ISSN
0021-9258 .
PMID
13022670 .
^ Illingworth, Barbara; Brown, David H.; Cori, Carl F. (1961-04-01).
"The De Novo Synthesis of Polysaccharide by Phosphorylase" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 47 (4): 469–478.
Bibcode :
1961PNAS...47..469I .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.47.4.469 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
221475 .
PMID
13717528 .
^ Illingworth, Barbara; Jansz, Hendrik S.; Brown, David H.; Cori, Carl F. (1958-12-15).
"Observations on the Function of Pyridoxal-5-Phosphate in Phosphorylase" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 44 (12): 1180–1191.
Bibcode :
1958PNAS...44.1180I .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.44.12.1180 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
528705 .
PMID
16590330 .
^ Brown, David H.; Illingworth, Barbara (1962-10-01).
"The Properties of an Oligo-1,4 → 1,4-Glucantransferase from Animal Tissues" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 48 (10): 1783–1787.
Bibcode :
1962PNAS...48.1783B .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.48.10.1783 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
221040 .
PMID
14015933 .
^ Brown, David H.; Illingworth, Barbara; Cori, Carl F. (1963).
"Enzymatic Debranching of Glycogen: Combined Action of Oligo-1,4→1,4-glucan-transferase and Amylo-1,6-glucosidase in Debranching Glycogen" . Nature . 197 (4871): 980–982.
Bibcode :
1963Natur.197..980B .
doi :
10.1038/197980a0 .
ISSN
1476-4687 .
PMID
14015932 .
S2CID
4161911 .
^ Hauk, Rosalind; Illingworth, Barbara; Brown, David H.; Cori, Carl F. (1959-06-01).
"Enzymes of glycogen synthesis in glycogen-deposition disease" . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta . 33 (2): 554–556.
doi :
10.1016/0006-3002(59)90149-0 .
ISSN
0006-3002 .
PMID
13670930 .
^ Illingworth, Barbara; Kornfeld, Rosalind; Brown, David H. (1960).
"Phosphorylase and uridinediphosphoglucose-glycogen transferase in pyridoxine deficiency" . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta . 42 : 486–489.
doi :
10.1016/0006-3002(60)90827-1 .
PMID
13717529 .
^ Correspondence with Carl Cori, David and Barbara Brown Papers,
Collection FC179 , Becker Archives, Washington University School of Medicine.
^ Brockhoff, Dorothy (Spring 1971).
"Her Present Is Her Health" . Outlook Magazine . 8 (2): 16–18.
^ Pagliara, Anthony S.; Karl, Irene E.; Keating, James P.; Brown, Barbara I.; Kipnis, David M. (1 August 1972).
"Hepatic fructose-1,6-diphosphatase deficiency: A cause of lactic acidosis and hypoglycemia in infancy" . The Journal of Clinical Investigation . 51 (8): 2115–2123.
doi :
10.1172/JCI107018 .
ISSN
0021-9738 .
PMC
292368 .
PMID
4341015 .
^ Malatack, J. Jeffrey; Finegold, David N.; Iwatsuki, Shunzaburo; Shaw, Byers W.; Gartner, J. Carlton; Zitelli, Basil J.; Roe, Thomas; Starzl, Thomas E. (14 May 1983).
"Liver Transplantation for Type I Glycogen Storage Disease" . Lancet . 1 (8333): 1073–1075.
doi :
10.1016/s0140-6736(83)91910-4 .
ISSN
0140-6736 .
PMC
3022514 .
PMID
6133106 .
^ Starzl, T E; Putnam, C W; Porter, K A; Halgrimson, C G; Corman, J; Brown, B I; Gotlin, R W; Rodgerson, D O; Greene, H L (October 1973).
"Portal diversion for the treatment of glycogen storage disease in humans" . Annals of Surgery . 178 (4): 525–539.
doi :
10.1097/00000658-197310000-00015 .
ISSN
0003-4932 .
PMC
1355694 .
PMID
4517839 .