Title:

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer

Creator:

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

Recipient:

Sinsheimer, Robert and California Institute of Technology

Date:

9 July 1965

Description:

Working to synthesize a viable DNA, Kornberg turned to the small bacterial viruses M13 and Phi X174. Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer at the California Institute of Technology had found that the single-stranded, circular Phi X174 virus DNA was converted to a double helix after entering its E. coli host, and the double stranded form was by itself infective. In this letter, Kornberg asked for a sample of Sinsheimer's virus to start investigating its possible use as a replication template. It was from this virus that Kornberg was able to create an infective synthetic viral DNA in 1967.

Original Repository:

Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Arthur Kornberg Papers

Location:

Box: 32

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Arthur Kornberg.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer, 1965

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Arthur Kornberg Papers. 12455

Legacy ID:

WHBBGZ

NLM ID:

101584605X104

Profiles Collection:

The Arthur Kornberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584605X104

Story Section:

"Creating Life in the Test Tube," 1959-1970