Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Klug, Aaron

Date:

30 March 1977

Description:

In his letter Crick responded to Klug's reports on recent conferences devoted to DNA sequencing and structure, and concluded that the time had come to determine which fraction of the DNA base sequence coded for proteins. When Crick embarked on the project to decipher the genetic code during the 1950s, he had made the unspoken assumption that if not all, then most of the DNA sequence coded for protein. By the mid-1970s, researchers had found that the human genome was much more complex, that long stretches of it do not code for protein, but rather have regulatory functions--or have no apparent function at all.. Crick also mentioned that he was resigning from the Medical Research Council, effective March 31, 1977, to join the faculty of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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:

Genetic Code

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 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:

SCBBQQ

NLM ID:

101584582X239

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X239

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004