Brunó Ferenc Straub

Brunó Ferenc Straub
Brunó Ferenc Straub
Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary
	In office; 29 June 1988 – 23 October 1989
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Károly Grósz; Miklós Németh
Preceded by	Károly Németh
Succeeded by	Mátyás Szűrös
Personal details
Born	5 January 1914; Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)
Died	15 February 1996 (aged 82); Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse(s)	Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940–1967) ; Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972–1993)
Children	2 daughters
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Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) – 15 February 1996) was a biochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, and subsequently worked at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge, UK. He was the first to obtain actin in a relatively pure state.^[1] He founded the Biological Research Centre in Szeged. He was the chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 29 June 1988 to 23 October 1989. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964,^[2]^[3] the same year the Monod–Wyman–Changeux model was proposed.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Straub BF (1942). Szent-Györgyi A (ed.). "Actin". Studies from the Institute of Medical Chemistry University Szeged. 1942. II: 3–15.
^ Csermely, P.; Palotai, R.; Nussinov, T. (2010). "Induced fit, conformational selection and independent dynamic segments: an extended view of binding events". Trends Biochem. Sci. 35 (10): 539–546. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2010.04.009. PMC 3018770.
^ Orosz, F.; Vértessy, B. G. (2021). "What's in a name? From "fluctuation fit" to "conformational selection": rediscovery of a concept". Hist. Philos. Life Sci. 43: 88. doi:10.1007/s40656-021-00442-2. PMC 8270835.
^ Changeux, J.-P. (1964). "Allosteric interactions interpreted in terms of quaternary structure". Brookhaven Symp. Biol. 17: 232–249. PMID 14246265.
^ Monod, J; Wyman, J; Changeux, J.-P. (1965). "On the Nature of Allosteric Transitions — a Plausible Model". J. Mol. Biol. 12 (1): 88–118. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(65)80285-6. PMID 14343300.

Political offices
Preceded by Károly Németh	Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council 1988–1989	Succeeded by Mátyás Szűrös as President of Hungary

v t e Heads of state of Hungary
Revolution of 1848	Kossuth Görgei
Kingdom (1867–1918)	Francis Joseph Charles IV
First Republic	Károlyi
Soviet Republic	Garbai Peidl
Republic (1919–20)	Joseph August Friedrich Huszár
Kingdom (1920–46)	Horthy Szálasi Miklós High National Council
Second Republic	Tildy Szakasits
People's Republic	Szakasits Rónai Dobi Losonczi Németh Straub
Third Republic	Szűrös Göncz Mádl Sólyom Schmitt Kövér Áder Novák Kövér Sulyok
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Brunó Ferenc Straub


Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary
In office 29 June 1988 – 23 October 1989
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Károly Grósz Miklós Németh
Preceded by	Károly Németh
Succeeded by	Mátyás Szűrös

Personal details
Born	(1914-01-05)5 January 1914 Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)
Died	15 February 1996(1996-02-15) (aged 82) Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse(s)	Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940–1967) Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972–1993)
Children	2 daughters