Letter from Francis Crick to W. Traub
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to W. Traub
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Traub, W.
- Date:
- 2 January 1970
- Description:
- Crick here reviewed his work with Alexander Rich on collagen during the 1950s. Collagens make up a family of proteins that share a triple-helical shape (three strands of a polypeptide chain wound around one another, corkscrew-like) and that are a major structural component of connective tissue, giving it strength and flexibility.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 11. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/19
- 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:
- Collagen
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- 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:
- SCBBMK
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X173
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X173
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976