德岛大学药学院副教授樋口富彦等人在世界上首先发现并分离和提纯出一种蛋白质,这种蛋白质在细胞内制造一切生物的活动能源——腺苷三磷酸时起着极其重要的作用,据认为,它把以食物形式摄取的能源转换为生物体可利用的能源,在某种意义上说就是一种能源转换装置.过去,人们还根本不知道存在着具有这种性质的蛋白质,因此,这作为一个在生物化学和 Tokushima Toshihiko, an associate professor at Tokushima University School of Pharmacy, first discovered and isolated and purified a protein in the world that plays an extremely important role in the intracellular production of adenosine triphosphate, the active energy of all living organisms. It is thought that converting energy ingested as food into energy available to the organism is in some sense an energy conversion device and in the past it was not known at all that there was a protein of this nature, This is as one in biochemistry and