Letter from H. Gobind Khorana to Francis Crick
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011
- Publication:
- Produced: 12 April 1969
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Genetic Code RNA
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- In this letter Khorana reported on recent work in his laboratory on alanine tRNA in yeast and in the bacterium E-coli, as well as on the TAG codon in DNA, which becomes UAG during transcription into RNA and which codes for the termination of a polypeptide chain.. The "commotion of last fall" mentioned in the first paragraph referred to the award of a share of the 1968 Nobel Prize to Khorana.
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- Extent:
- 1 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X77 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBGL
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X77
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)