Title:

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer

Creator:

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

Recipient:

Sinsheimer, Robert and California Institute of Technology

Date:

29 July 1965

Description:

Working to synthesize a viable DNA, Kornberg turned to the small bacterial viruses M13 and Phi X174. Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer at the California Institute of Technology had found that the single-stranded, circular Phi X174 virus DNA was converted to a double helix after entering its E. coli host, and by itself was infective. In a previous letter, Kornberg had asked for a sample of Sinsheimer's virus to start investigating its possible use as a replication template. This letter reported on his initial results with the virus. It was from this virus that Kornberg was able to create an infective synthetic viral DNA in 1967.

Original Repository:

Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Arthur Kornberg Papers

Location:

Box: 32

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Arthur Kornberg.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Robert L. Sinsheimer, 1965

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Arthur Kornberg Papers. 12455

Legacy ID:

WHBBHB

NLM ID:

101584605X105

Profiles Collection:

The Arthur Kornberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584605X105

Story Section:

"Creating Life in the Test Tube," 1959-1970