Chapter 19 : Early Kinetics of Induced Enzyme Synthesis

Abstract:

The author arrived too late at the Pasteur Institute to participate in the great adventure: the founding of molecular biology. But she was around long enough to witness many later developments. A few years later, a paper by the Jacques Monod impressed the author profoundly. Jacques was now ready to admit that cyclic AMP plays an important regulatory role. Many of the members of the group had decided at that time to assume new directions. This gave Jacques mixed feelings of loneliness, nostalgia, and freedom. At the beginning of 1970 Jacques was asked to become Director of the Pasteur Institute, and he immediately gave up the idea of a sabbatical leave and a few months later he became Director of the Pasteur Institute. A few months later he became ill and had to slow down his activities. Vicky was the only one who for months and months still desperately waited every evening at the door and could not understand why his master did not call for him anymore.