Letter from Francis Crick to Alexander Rich

Letter from Francis Crick to Alexander Rich

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Rich, Alexander
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Publication:
Produced: [7 January 1965]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Genetic Code
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
In 1967, two years after the date of this letter, Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Alan Garen determined that the amber and ochre codons mentioned in the last paragraph (the triplets UAG and UAA, respectively) signal the termination of the polypeptide chain. They were called nonsense codons because it became clear from experiments with certain phage mutants that they do not specify any amino acid during protein synthesis. The names amber and ochre were assigned to them randomly by researchers.. NOTE: The date was mistakenly typed as "7th January 1964." The actual date of this letter is 7 January 1965.
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X30 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBCX
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X30
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)