Letter from Sewell Champe to Francis Crick

Letter from Sewell Champe to Francis Crick

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Champe, Sewell
Publication:
Produced: 1 March 1967
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Molecular Biology
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Champe here told further of his efforts to map the rII region of the bacteriophage T2. His goal was to map changes in the mutant strain rII to changes in the amino acid sequence of the protein for which it coded. (Bacterial viruses are composed of nucleoprotein, an assembly of nucleic acid and protein, which upon infection enters the bacterial cell, where it induces the synthesis of more viral nucleoprotein.) Champ was beginning to isolate and purify parts of the polypeptide for which rII coded.. Champ's letter illustrates the degree to which research in molecular genetics depended on collaboration between laboratories across countries and across continents, on the exchange of researchers, ideas, and experimental strains.
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Extent:
2 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X207 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBPB
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X207
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)