Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Leonard S. Lerman

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Lerman, Leonard S.

Date:

6 November 1964

Description:

Lerman obtained physical chemical evidence that chemicals of the acridine type, specifically proflavin, produced mutations in genes by which individual bases where added to, or deleted from, the base sequence, thereby changing the sequence and, with it, the order of the amino acids in the protein for which the gene coded. By contrast, other mutations consist of substitutions of bases.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 10. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/12

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Leonard S. Lerman to Francis Crick, 1964

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:

SCBBBS

NLM ID:

101584582X8

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X8

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966