Pierre Goloubinoff

When Pierre Goloubinoff was two years old, his family emigrated[1] to the city of Montana, in the canton of Valais in the Swiss Alps.

In the 1960s, following the publication of stories about the Holocaust, the family decided to join the Zionist enterprise.

In 1972, Christian B. Anfinsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for seminal experiments performed mostly by his postdoctoral fellow, Michael Sela.

As a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of George Huntly Lorimer, Goloubinoff provided the first experimental demonstration of a mechanism by which a bacterial chaperone, GroEL, could act on the folding and assembly pathway of a recombinant RubisCO protein.

They showed that in bacteria, the chaperone could prevent the aggregation of a recombinant protein, RubisCO, and promote its proper folding and assembly o r. They further showed that in the test tube the purified chaperone could also drive the proper folding of the recombinant protein.