Title:

Letter from H. Gobind Khorana to Francis Crick

Creator:

Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

12 April 1969

Description:

In this letter Khorana reported on recent work in his 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.. The "commotion of last fall" mentioned in the first paragraph referred to the award of a share of the 1968 Nobel Prize to Khorana.

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 H. Gobind Khorana.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetic Code and RNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana, 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:

SCBBGL

NLM ID:

101584582X77

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X77

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976