Bruce Ames

Bruce Ames
Bruce Ames
Nascimento	16 de dezembro de 1928 (95 anos) Nova Iorque
Prêmios	Prêmio Eli Lilly de Química Biológica (1964), Prêmio Rosenstiel (1975), Medalha Thomas Hunt Morgan (2004)
Campo(s)	Bioquímica, biologia molecular

Bruce Nathan Ames (Nova Iorque, 16 de dezembro de 1928) é um bioquímico e biólogo molecular estadunidense. Um dos seus trabalhos mais notáveis é a criação do teste de Ames para identificação de compostos mutagênicos.

Publicações selecionadas

• com Lynn M. Wallock, Tsunenobu Tamura, Craig A. Mayr, Kelley E. Johnston and Robert A. Jacob: Low seminal plasma folate concentrations are associated with low sperm density and count in male smokers and nonsmokers. In: Fertility and Sterility. Vol. 75, 2001, ISSN 0015-0282, S. 252–259, PMID 11172823.
• com Patricia Wakimoto: Are vitamin and mineral deficiencies a major cancer risk? In: Nature Reviews Cancer. Vol. 2, Nr. 9, 2002, ISSN 1474-175X, S. 694–704, PMID 12209158, doi:10.1038/nrc886.
• com Hani Atamna, David W. Killilea und Alison Nisbet Killilea: Heme deficiency may be a factor in the mitochondrial and neuronal decay of aging. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 99, 2002, ISSN 0027-8424, S. 14807–14812, PMID 12417755, doi:10.1073/pnas.192585799.
• com Patrick B. Walter, Mitchell D. Knutson, Andres Paler-Martinez, Sonia Lee, Yu Xu und Fernando E. Viteri: Iron deficiency and iron excess damage mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA in rats. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 99, 2002, S. 2264–2269, PMID 11854522, doi:10.1073/pnas.261708798.
• com Emily Ho: Low intracellular zinc induces oxidative DNA damage, disrupts p53, NFkappa B, and AP1 DNA binding, and affects DNA repair in a rat glioma cell line. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Vol. 99, S. 16770-16775, PMID 12481036, doi:10.1073/pnas.222679399.
• The Metabolic Tune-Up: Metabolic Harmony and Disease Prevention. In: The Journal of Nutrition. Vol. 133, 2003, ISSN 0022-3166, S. 1544S–1548S, PMID 12730462, online.

Ligações externas

• Radio-Interview mit Bruce N. Ames
• Video-Vorlesungen Bruce Ames
• Interview zu Multivitamin-Supplementierung
• Biografischer Artikel aus dem Journal for Biological Chemistry, 2003