Klug here referred to his X-ray diffraction studies of crystals of chromatin, the name given to the chromosomal material--an assembly of DNA and a group of simple proteins called histones--when extracted from the nucleus of cells in higher organisms (eukaryotic cells).
Number of Image Pages:
2 (88,087 Bytes)
Date:
1976-05-12 (May 12, 1976)
Creator:
Klug, Aaron
Recipient:
Crick, Francis
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
