Febs Letters Volume 117, Number 1./Supplement/Volume 118, Number 1-2. [antikvár]

Volume 117, Supplement FEBS LETTERS 25 August 1980 EDITORS' NOTE This special issue of FEBS Letters is dedicated to its most senior Editor, Professor Sir Hans Krebs, FRS, on his eightieth birthday. It arose from the wish of his friends, students and collaborators (and these terms are not mutually exclusive) to honour him and to give him some appropriate gift. But, like the Jongleur de Notre Dame of the legend, there is nothing that his friends can offer him that wUl be more to his liking than the demonstration that they have profited from his teaching and by his example. These papers - some in the form of Review Letters, some containing novel data, and some both - encapsulate the interests of some of his close associate^, now dispersed throughout the world but united in then obligation to Trof. Obviously, this issue would have been vast in size had papers been incorporated on all subjects: as Chesterton might have remarked, Editing, like Art, starts by drawing the line somewhere. So, regretfully, the Editors have had to restrict contributors to some of those working directly on the general theme that has marked so much of Sir Hans' own work - the regulation of cell metabolism. Since Sir Hans has always stressed the essential unity of life processes, it is appropriate that the topics discussed range from the metabolism of Ci-compounds in the simplest, to the interaction of different compartments in the most complex, living organisms. It gives the Editors particular pleasure to include in this issue also a biographical article by Hermann Blaschko who (as apparent even from its title) has been a friend of Hans Krebs' for over 60 years; it was also appropriate to reprint the classic paper by Krebs and Johnson (1937) that has shaped so much of modern Biochemistry. Hans Romberg Patricia Lund The foUowing nine pages are reprinted from Enzymologia (1937) 4, 148-156 with the permission of Dr W. Junk BV Publishers, Boston, London, The Hague. KI