Letter from Sydney Brenner to Francis Crick
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Brenner, Sydney
- Publication:
- Produced: 24 March 1959
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Genetic Code
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- Brenner here reported results from his research with mutations of the phages (bacterial viruses) T2 and T4, research designed to match a mutation in the fine structure of a phage gene to changes in a protein whose synthesis the virus triggered when it infected a bacterial cell. Brenner sought to give experimental support to Crick's sequence hypothesis: that the sequence of the bases in DNA specified the order of the amino acids in the polypeptide chain of proteins.
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- Extent:
- 2 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X202 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBNV
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X202
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)