Title:

The Current Status of the RNA Code

Creator:

Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Jones, Oliver W., Jr

Date:

1963

Description:

This article discusses the state of the field approximately a year after Nirenberg's groundbreaking poly-U experiments were discussed in Moscow and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The article addresses the efficiency and specificity with which synthetic polynucleotides have been found to direct amino acids into proteins, the process by which coding amino acids takes place, and the problem of degeneracy and its relationship to the general nature of the code. This article covers the same subject in "Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords," which is also available on this site.

Publisher:

The Academic Press

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Academic Press.

Genre:

Monographs
Excerpts

Subject:

Nucleotides, Amino Acids, RNA, Viral, and RNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

15 pages

Relation:

Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords, 1962

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Monograph. Nirenberg, Marshall W., and Oliver W. Jones Jr. "The Current Status of the RNA Code." Symposium on Informational Macromolecules. Academic Press, 1963. Pp. 451-465. Excerpt. Monograph. 15 Images.

Legacy ID:

JJBBHP

NLM ID:

101584910X117

Profiles Collection:

The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X117

Story Section:

Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968