Title:

Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords

Creator:

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

Date:

1962

Description:

In this article, Jones and Nirenberg provide a progress report on code translation efforts. They find that almost every amino acid tested can be coded by a polymer containing only two bases. The article includes approximations of nineteen triplet codewords and suggests that any theory concerning the physical basis of the code must explain the available data revealing the high coding efficiency of polynucleotides, marked codeword specificity, and degenerate codewords. The degeneracy model of Gamov and Watson-Crick pairing are among some of the ideas discussed.

Periodical:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Publisher:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

Amino Acids, RNA, Codon, and Polynucleotides

Format:

Text

Extent:

9 pages

Relation:

The Current Status of the RNA Code, 1963
Letter from Marshall W. Nirenberg to Francis Crick, 1962
Letter from Francis Crick to Marshall W. Nirenberg, 1962

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Jones, Oliver W. Jr, and Marshall W. Nirenberg. "Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 48, (1962): 2115-2123. Article. 9 Images.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Legacy ID:

JJBBDL

NLM ID:

101584910X51

Profiles Collection:

The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X51

Story Section:

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