This article discusses the state of the field approximately a year after Nirenberg's groundbreaking poly-U experiments were discussed in Moscow and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The article addresses the efficiency and specificity with which synthetic polynucleotides have been found to direct amino acids into proteins, the process by which coding amino acids takes place, and the problem of degeneracy and its relationship to the general nature of the code. This article covers the same subject in "Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords," which is also available on this site.
Number of Image Pages:
15 (1,160,293 Bytes)
Date:
1963
Creator:
Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Jones, Oliver W. Jr
Source:
Monograph: Nirenberg, Marshall W., and Oliver W. Jones Jr. "The Current Status of the RNA Code." Symposium on Informational Macromolecules. Academic Press, 1963. Pp. 451-465 Excerpt. Monograph. 15 Images.
Publisher:
Academic Press
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of Academic Press.
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Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Nucleotides
Amino Acids
RNA, Viral
RNA
Exhibit Category:
Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968
Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords (1962)