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