Margaret Jope

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Henriette Margaret Jope , b. Halliday (* 1913 in Peterhead , Scotland , † 2004 probably in Oxford ) was a British biochemist .

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She holds a degree in Chemistry from Aberdeen University and a DPhil PhD from Somerville College , Oxford . She met her future husband Martyn Jope while working at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at Oxford University . After their marriage, Margaret accompanied her husband Martyn to Belfast, where he later became Professor of Archeology at Queen's University .

Margaret continued her research in the Geology Department at the University of Belfast, where she worked primarily on the subject of armpods ( Brachiopoda ), especially their shell protein. Her other research interests included the crystallization of hemoglobin, and in collaboration with her husband Martyn, she studied animal bones, particularly bird bones, at archaeological sites primarily in Northern Ireland and Oxfordshire.

Margaret and Martyn Jope were closely connected and shared all aspects of life together from music to joint publications on biochemical and biological studies. Both were Fellows of the London Antiquities Society , and together they were regular visitors to Burlington House , both during Queen's University break and in retirement, which they spent together at their Oxford home.

Publications about armworts ( Brachiopoda ) and giant deer ( Megaloceroi )

Arm pods (Brachiopoda) Cincinnetina meeki
  • HM Jope, "Composition of Brachiopod Shell", "Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology", ed. RC Moore , Brachiopoda, vol H, University of Kansas Press ?, 1965, p H156-H164.
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell I: Amino acid composition and implied protein taxonomy", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 20, p. 593-600 (1967).
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell II: Shell protein from fossil articulates: amino acid composition", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 20 (1967) p 601-605.
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell III: Comparison with Structural Protein of Soft Tissue", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30 (1969), p 209-224.
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell IV: Shell protein from fossil inarticulates: amino acid composition and Disc Electrophoresis of fossil articulate shell protein", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30, p 225-232 (1969).
  • HM Jope, "Constituents of Brachiopod Shells", Comprehensive Biochemistry, ed. M Florkin and EH Stotz, 26C (1971), p 749-784.
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell V: N-terminal End Groups", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 45B (1973), pp 17-24.
  • HM Jope, "Brachiopod Shell Proteins: Their Functions and Taxonomic Significance", American Zoology, 17 (1977), p 133-140.
  • HM Jope, "The Protein of Brachiopod Shell VI: C Terminal end groups and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis: molecular constitution and structure of the protein", Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 63B (1979), p 163-173.
  • HM Jope, "Phylogenetic Information derivable from Fossil Brachiopods", Biogeochemistry of Amino Acids, ed. PE Hare, Wiley, 1980, p 83-94.
  • HM Jope, "Evolution of Brachiopods: The Molecular Approach", Les Brachiopoda, Fossils et Actuels, ed. PR Racheboeuf and CC Emig, Brest, 1985, p 103-111.
Antlers of a giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus antecedens , wingspan approx. 2.60 meters

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MARGARET JOPE: Brachiopod Shell Proteins: Their Functions and Taxonomic Significance. In: Integrative and Comparative Biology. 17, 1977, pp. 133-140, doi : 10.1093 / icb / 17.1.133 .
  2. ↑ JRP O'Brien: Hemoglobin . In: Butterworths Scientific Publications, London (Ed.): Barcroft Memorial Conference . 1949, pp. 269-278.
personal data
SURNAME Jope, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jope, Henriette Margaret (full name); Halliday, Margaret; Halliday, Henriette Margaret (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterhead , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 2004
Place of death unsure: Oxford