Edward Rubenstein

Edward Rubenstein
Born Cincinnati, OH, United States
Fields Molecular Biology, Physics, Medicine, Chemistry
Institutions Stanford University
National Research Council (United States)
Alma mater University of Cincinnati
Notable awards Member of the Institute of Medicine (1981)
Member of Major Materials Facilities Committee, The Governing Board of the National Research Council (1984)
Master of the American College of Physicians (1986)
Kaiser Award for Innovative and Outstanding Contributions to Medical Education (1989)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992)
Albion Walter Hewlett Award Recipient (1993)
British Medical Association Award for Editor of Best Book Published Worldwide (Molecular Medicine) (1995)
American College of Physicians Laureate (2002)

Edward Rubenstein, M.D., M.A.C.P. is an American doctor of internal medicine, with major contributions in the fields of medical education, research (physics, biophysics and biochemistry,) and the arts.

Mechanisms of Blood Clotting

Edward Rubenstein is a Internal Medicine physician, with areas of expertise including clotting disorders that predispose to pulmonary embolism.[1][2]

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project

In the early 1970s Stanford University marked a landmark period in particle physics research with the creation of the colliding beam storage ring, called the Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring (SPEAR) in 1972. Among the famous discoveries were the J/psi and tau particles. A byproduct of the ring's operation was an intense beam of synchrotron radiation. Rubenstein and his colleagues E. Barrie Hughes and Robert Hofstadter posited that there may be numerous applications of this intensely powerful, tuneable, and linearly polarized radiation to biomedical imaging, including intravenous coronary arteriography. They devised a synchrotron radiation based imaging system which has been used worldwide.[3][4]

Rubenstein has proposed that the polarized synchrotron light which is emitted by relativistic electrons orbiting neutron stars (linear in the plane of rotation, with opposite helicity above and below the plane) would selectively photolyze chiral molecules floating on grains in nearby space. This mechanism would produce an enantiomeric excess of either right- or left-handed molecules which can be delivered to Earth by passing comets.[5]

Nonprotein amino acids

In addition, Rubenstein has pioneered research on the consequences of the misincorporation of nonprotein amino acids, especially the lower homologue of proline, azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (Aze). This compound eludes the gate-keeping function of the prolyl tRNAs, and enters a wide range of proteins. For instance, the central region in a consensus epitope of myelin basic protein consists of the sequence: proline, arginine, threonine, proline, proline, proline. Dairy milk from cattle fed sugar beet byproducts is high in Aze, therefore infants fed such milk are exposed to Aze in their diets.[6][7]

Editorships & Authorships

Dr. Rubenstein has contributed numerous book publications in the medical and physics literature. The volume entitled Introduction to Molecular Medicine was selected by the British Medical Association as the Best Book Published in Medicine in 1995.

Editorships

Textbooks

References

  1. Rubenstein, Edward (1962). "Blood Clotting: The Force of Retraction". Science. 138:1341: 1343–1344. doi:10.1126/science.138.3547.1343.
  2. Rubenstein, Edward (1967). "Studies on Clot Tensile Strength". Thromb Diath Haemorrh. 17:552.
  3. Rubenstein, E; Hughes, EB; Campbell, LE; Hofstadter, R; Kirk, RL; Krolicki, TJ; Stone, JP; Wilson, S; Zeman, HD; Brody, WR; Macovski, A; Thompson, AC (1981). "Synchrotron Radiation and its Application to Digital Subtraction". SPIE. 314:42.
  4. Rubenstein, E; Hofstadter, R; Zeman, HD; Thompson, AC; Otis, JN; Brown, GS; Giacomini, JC; Gordon, HJ; Kernoff, RS; Harrison, DC; Thomlinson, W (1986). "Transvenous Coronary Angiography in Humans using Synchrotron Radiation". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 83:9724: 9724–9728. doi:10.1073/pnas.83.24.9724.
  5. Rubenstein, E; Bonner, WA; Noyes, HP; Brown, GS (1983). "Supernovae and Life". Nature. 306:118: 118. doi:10.1038/306118a0.
  6. Rubenstein, Edward (2008). "Misincorporation of the Proline Analogue Azetidine-2-Carboxylic Acid in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis: A Hypothesis.". J Neuropath Exp Neuro. 67:1035: 1035–1040. doi:10.1097/nen.0b013e31818add4a.
  7. Morgan, AA; Rubenstein, E (2013). "Proline: The Distribution, Frequency, Positioning, and Common Functional Role of Proline and Polyproline Sequences in the Human Proteome". PLOS ONE. 8e53785: e53785. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053785.


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