Juan José Cazzulo Marmissolle, Argentine biochemist (General Alvear, Buenos Aires Province 29 November 1941 –

From Basque and Italian descent

Authored over 200 papers

Purified and characterized pyruvic carboxylase of yeast

Carboxilasa piruvica de levadura de panaderia (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Purificación y propiedades (1967)

With B.M. Franke showed the important role of a protease (cysteine proteinase) for the pathogenesis of Trypanosoma cruzi (1984)

Identified new metabolic pathways in trypanosomatids

With A.J. Parodi elucidated the synthesis of glycoproteins in trypanosomatids (1981-2)

With C. Nowicki elucidated the catabolism of aromatic amino acids in Trypanosoma cruzi (2008)

Showed that halophilic enzymes may be allosterically ruled

Papers in Nature

With T.K.Sundaram & H.L.Kornberg. Regulation of pyruvate carboxylase formation from the apoenzyme and biotin in a thermophilic Bacillus. Nature (London) 223:1137-8, 1969

With T.K.Sundaram & H.L.Kornberg. Mechanism of pyruvate carboxylase formation from the apoenzyme and biotin in a thermophilic Bacillus. Nature (London) 227: 1103-5, 1970

HONOURS

Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Uppsala (2002)