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Title:
Letter from Sewell Champe to Francis Crick pdf (152,502 Bytes) ocr (3,105 Bytes)
Description:
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.
Number of Image Pages:
2 (152,502 Bytes)
Date:
1967-03-01 (March 1, 1967)
Creator:
Champe, Sewell
Recipient:
Crick, Francis
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of Mark Champe.
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Molecular Biology
Exhibit Category:
Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Francis Crick to Sewell Champe (March 6, 1967)
Metadata Record Letter from Francis Crick to Sewell Champe (November 2, 1966)
Box Number: 8
Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/1/1/3
Unique Identifier:
SCBBPB
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Correspondence
SubSeries: Alphabetical Correspondence
SubSubSeries: Correspondence 1
Folder: Correspondence C
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-10-20
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