Title:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Creator:

Klug, Aaron

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

15 October 1976

Description:

Klug here added further results of X-ray diffraction studies of crystals of chromatin undertaken in his laboratory. "Kinking" was a hypothesis developed by Klug and Crick about the way in which chromosomal DNA is folded: not by bending, but by joining of nearly straight sections of about 200 base pairs in length by large kinks. See Crick and Klug, "Kinky Helix," Science 255 (June 12, 1975), pp.530-33.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/18

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Aaron Klug.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Crystallography, X-Ray and Chromatin

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 1976
Kinky Helix, 1975

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:

SCBBPT

NLM ID:

101584582X221

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X221

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976