Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011
- Date:
- 16 April 1969
- Description:
- In this letter Crick referred to work in Khorana's laboratory on alanine tRNA in yeast and in the bacterium E-coli, as well as on the TAG codon in DNA, which becomes UAG during transcription into RNA and which codes for the termination of a polypeptide chain.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 9. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/11
- 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 and RNA
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from H. Gobind Khorana to Francis Crick, 1969 Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana, 1969
- 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:
- SCBBGK
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X76
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X76
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976