Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Klug, Aaron
- Date:
- 1 July 1977
- Description:
- Crick here made a final comment on a draft of a paper by Klug regarding the spatial arrangement of DNA and histones in nucleosomes, particularly whether the DNA helix was itself coiled in a nucleosome (forming a coiled coil, or superhelix). Crick warned that "the whole question of the conformation of superhelical DNA in solution is full of difficulties.". In the last paragraph Crick took issue with the an alternative model of DNA presented by R. A. Rodley and colleagues in which the two strands of DNA were straight rather than helical.
- 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 the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- DNA and Nucleosomes
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 1977 Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug, 1977 Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug, 1977
- 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:
- SCBBQF
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X230
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X230
- Story Section:
- From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004