Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Klug, Aaron
- Date:
- 30 June 1977
- Description:
- Crick here commented again on the draft of a paper by Klug on the spatial arrangement of DNA and histones (proteins associated with DNA) in nucleosomes, particularly on the dimensions of the DNA helix, whether the DNA helix was itself coiled in a nucleosome (forming a coiled coil, or superhelix), and the number of base pairs per turn of the superhelix. Crick also pointed out that as DNA shrank from its hydrated, elongated B form (or fiber form) to its shorter, drier A form, the X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA in nucleosomes changed in ways that might affect Klug's conclusions.
- 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, Nucleosomes, and Crystallography, X-Ray
- 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:
- SCBBQG
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X231
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X231
- Story Section:
- From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004