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The Francis Crick Papers

Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug pdf (131,867 Bytes) ocr (1,574 Bytes)
Description:
Crick here made a final comment on a draft of a paper by Klug regarding the spatial arrangement of DNA and histones in nucleosomes, particularly whether the DNA helix was itself coiled in a nucleosome (forming a coiled coil, or superhelix). Crick warned that "the whole question of the conformation of superhelical DNA in solution is full of difficulties."
In the last paragraph Crick took issue with the an alternative model of DNA presented by R. A. Rodley and colleagues in which the two strands of DNA were straight rather than helical.
Number of Image Pages:
2 (131,867 Bytes)
Date:
1977-07-01 (July 1, 1977)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Klug, Aaron
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 the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
URL: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
DNA
Nucleosomes
Exhibit Category:
From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick (July 18, 1977)
Metadata Record Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug (June 30, 1977)
Metadata Record Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug (June 20, 1977)
Box Number: 23
Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/2/18
Unique Identifier:
SCBBQF
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Correspondence
SubSeries: Individual Correspondents
Folder: Correspondence with Aaron Klug
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2005-09-26
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