Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug [letter 2]

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Klug, Aaron

Date:

27 April 1977

Description:

In his letter to Klug--the second in a day, demonstrating how involved Crick remained in DNA research even after his relocation to the Salk Institute and his switch to neurobiology--Crick further speculated on the structure of DNA and its associated proteins, the histones, as it appears on the chromosomes of higher organisms. In particular he examined the idea that the nucleosomes, assemblies of DNA and histones with a regular, repeating bead-like shape, formed solenoids, or coiled, tubular structures. Crick here discussed what dimensions and symmetrical properties such solenoids would have to possess to fit the X-ray and electron microscope evidence reported by Klug and others.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/18

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA and Nucleosomes

Format:

Text

Extent:

4 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug [letter 1], 1977

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Legacy ID:

SCBBQL

NLM ID:

101584582X235

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X235

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004