Structure of Polyglycine II
- Contributor(s):
- Rich, Alexander Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Nature
- Publication:
- Nature Publishing Group, 22 October 1955
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Articles
- Abstract:
- During the 1950s Crick made crucial contributions not only to the study of DNA and the genetic code, but to X-ray structure analysis of important biological molecules. In this paper, Crick and Alexander Rich, a visiting physical chemist in the Cavendish laboratory who had studied the structure of RNA with James Watson at the California Institute of Technology, applied X-ray diffraction theory to deduce the three-dimensional structure of polyglycene II, a synthetic polymer consisting of an array of polypeptide chains made up solely of the amino acid glycene.
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- Extent:
- 2 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X392 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBZK
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X392
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)