Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Arthur Kornberg

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

Date:

10 May 1960

Description:

In addition to discussing the use of artificial strands of RNA (such as GCGC) as a means for uncovering the genetic code, Crick here conveyed his recent insight that ribosomal RNA was not the messenger RNA (which Crick here called genetic RNA), but that mRNA was a separate form of RNA which had eluded detection because it turned over (formed, decomposed, and formed again) rapidly as it carried parts of the genetic message from the DNA in the nucleus of the cell to the ribosomes in the cytoplasm.

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, RNA, and Ribosomes

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

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:

SCBBGZ

NLM ID:

101584582X89

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X89

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966