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Brunó Ferenc Straub
Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary
In office 29 June 1988 – 23 October 1989
Chairman of the Council of Ministers	Károly Grósz Miklós Németh
Preceded by	Károly Németh
Succeeded by	Mátyás Szűrös
Personal details
Born	(1914-01-05)5 January 1914 Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)
Died	15 February 1996(1996-02-15) (aged 82) Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Political party	Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
Spouse(s)	Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940–1967) Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972–1993)
Children	2 daughters

Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) – 15 February 1996) was a biochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, and subsequently worked at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge, UK. He was the first to obtain actin in a relatively pure state. He founded the Biological Research Centre in Szeged. He was the chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 29 June 1988 to 23 October 1989. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964, the same year the Monod–Wyman–Changeux model was proposed.

References

1. Straub BF (1942). Szent-Györgyi A (ed.). "Actin". Studies from the Institute of Medical Chemistry University Szeged. 1942. II: 3–15.
2. Csermely, P.; Palotai, R.; Nussinov, T. (2010). "Induced fit, conformational selection and independent dynamic segments: an extended view of binding events". Trends Biochem. Sci. 35 (10): 539–546. doi:10.1016/j.tibs.2010.04.009. PMC 3018770.
3. Orosz, F.; Vértessy, B. G. (2021). "What's in a name? From "fluctuation fit" to "conformational selection": rediscovery of a concept". Hist. Philos. Life Sci. 43: 88. doi:10.1007/s40656-021-00442-2. PMC 8270835.
4. Changeux, J.-P. (1964). "Allosteric interactions interpreted in terms of quaternary structure". Brookhaven Symp. Biol. 17: 232–249. PMID 14246265.
5. Monod, J; Wyman, J; Changeux, J.-P. (1965). "On the Nature of Allosteric Transitions — a Plausible Model". J. Mol. Biol. 12 (1): 88–118. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(65)80285-6. PMID 14343300.

• 1914 births
• 1996 deaths
• People from Oradea
• Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1985–1990)
• Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
• Hungarian biochemists
• Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences