Title:

Structure of Polyglycine II

Creator:

Rich, Alexander
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

22 October 1955

Description:

During the 1950s Crick made crucial contributions not only to the study of DNA and the genetic code, but to X-ray structure analysis of important biological molecules. In this paper, Crick and Alexander Rich, a visiting physical chemist in the Cavendish laboratory who had studied the structure of RNA with James Watson at the California Institute of Technology, applied X-ray diffraction theory to deduce the three-dimensional structure of polyglycene II, a synthetic polymer consisting of an array of polypeptide chains made up solely of the amino acid glycene.

Periodical:

Nature

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Nature Publishing Group. and http://www.nature.com/nature/

Genre:

Articles

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Crick, Francis, and Alexander Rich. "Structure of Polyglycine II." Nature 176, 4486 (22 October 1955): 780-781. Article. 2 Images.. Nature

Legacy ID:

SCBBZK

NLM ID:

101584582X392

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X392

Story Section:

Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957