The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Title:

Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords

Description:

In this article, Jones and Nirenberg provide a progress report on code translation efforts. They find that almost every amino acid tested can be coded by a polymer containing only two bases. The article includes approximations of nineteen triplet codewords and suggests that any theory concerning the physical basis of the code must explain the available data revealing the high coding efficiency of polynucleotides, marked codeword specificity, and degenerate codewords. The degeneracy model of Gamov and Watson-Crick pairing are among some of the ideas discussed.

Item is a photocopy.

Number of Image Pages:

9 (899,526 Bytes)

Date:

1962

Creator:

Jones, Oliver W. Jr

Nirenberg, Marshall W.

Source:

Periodical: Jones, Oliver W. Jr., and Marshall W. Nirenberg. "Qualitative Survey of RNA Codewords." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 48, (1962): 2115-2123. Article. 9 Images.

Publisher:

National Academy of Sciences

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Marshall W. Nirenberg.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Amino Acids; RNA; Codon; Polynucleotides

Exhibit Categories:

Synthetic RNA and the Poly-U Experiments, 1959-1962

Translating the Code of Life and the Nobel Prize, 1962-1968

Relation:

The Current Status of the RNA Code (1963)

Letter from Marshall W. Nirenberg to Francis Crick (November 16, 1962) (in The Francis Crick Papers)

Letter from Francis Crick to Marshall W. Nirenberg (December 5, 1962) (in The Francis Crick Papers)

Unique Identifier:

JJBBDL

Document Type:

Articles

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-10-21

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