Letter from Sydney Brenner to Francis Crick
- Title:
- Letter from Sydney Brenner to Francis Crick
- Creator:
- Brenner, Sydney
- Recipient:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Date:
- 24 March 1959
- Description:
- Brenner here reported results from his research with mutations of the phages (bacterial viruses) T2 and T4, research designed to match a mutation in the fine structure of a phage gene to changes in a protein whose synthesis the virus triggered when it infected a bacterial cell. Brenner sought to give experimental support to Crick's sequence hypothesis: that the sequence of the bases in DNA specified the order of the amino acids in the polypeptide chain of proteins.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 8. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/2
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of Sydney Brenner.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Genetic Code
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 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:
- SCBBNV
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X202
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X202
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966