Title:

An Error in Model Building [Editorial letter]

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

[25 February 1967]

Description:

In this letter to the editor of Nature Crick cast doubt on the contention by two researchers at King's College that certain amino acids could bond directly to their codons (the triplet of bases of messenger RNA that specify a particular amino acid), without the intervention of messenger RNA. He drew on stereochemistry, the chemical theory that deals with the relations of atoms within the three-dimensional space of a molecule, to prove that the direct fit between amino acid and anticodon proposed by the two researchers was not possible.

Periodical:

Nature

Publisher:

Nature Publishing Group

Rights:

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

Genre:

Articles
Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Crick, Francis. "An Error in Model Building" [Editorial letter]. Nature 213, ([25 February 1967]): 798. Article. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image.. Nature

Legacy ID:

SCBCDQ

NLM ID:

101584582X458

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X458

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966