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Efraim Racker Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05

Biochemist who studied energy conversion through reconstituted membrane systems. Racker and collaborators combined light-driven proton transport with ATP formation in vesicles, testing whether the component processes could operate together outside an intact cell.^[ref]

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Reconstitution of Purple Membrane Vesicles Catalyzing Light-driven Proton Uptake and Adenosine Triphosphate Formation by Efraim Racker and others Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-10-31

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First author: Efraim Racker.

Primary research: doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9258(19)43080-9

Cited passages: Racker and Stoeckenius, 1974, pp. 662–663, reconstituted light-driven proton uptake and ATP formation.

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