The milestone of membrane protein research:Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003
The milestone of membraneprotein research： Nobel Prizein Chemistry for 2003

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003 was awarded to two biologists, Peter Agre in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Roderick MacKinnon from Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Rockefeller University, who have made fundamental discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes. Peter Agre discovered and characterized the first water channel protein and Roderick MacKinnon mainly elucidated the structural and mechanistic basis for potassium channels.