title: Some comments on John Ferry's most enduring paper.
abstract: In this brief memoir, I reflect on the great insight John Ferry exhibited in his extremely influential 1952 paper on the mechanism of fibrinogen being changed into fibrin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA. rdoolittle@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Russell F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Doolittle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019281:Dimerization; D005337:Fibrin / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000266:history; D005340:Fibrinogen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000266:history / Q000378:metabolism; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D005337:Fibrin; D005340:Fibrinogen