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Correspondence
| George Gamow to LP, LP's reply. October 22, 1953. |
LP's reply
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Authors: Linus Pauling, George Gamow
LP's reply
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Linus Pauling's reply to George Gamow, Dec. 9, 1953 |
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Pauling, Linus, 1901- |
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1953-12-09 |
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Nucleic acids -- Structure
Pauling, Linus, 1901- -- Correspondence
Polypeptides
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text/plain |
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en |
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gamow01-pg05.jpg |
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Master file format: TIFF, 600 dpi, Epson GT-10000+ flatbed scanner. |
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http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/copyright.html |
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Dear Gamow:
I have been interested to see your letter which arrived in Pasadena just about what I was leaving, I tripped Israel.
The problem of the determination of sequence of amino acid residues in the protein molecule through complementariness to the
nucleic acid molecule is very interesting one. Clay and I thought about it in connection with apropos structure for nucleic
acid (proceedings national academic sciences February, 1953) which stimulated Watson and Crick, who had copy of the many tripped,
to develop their structure, and I know that Watson and Crick had gotten over two. I feel that a decision has to be made through
the consideration of the shapes out of the molecules as to any amino acid residues therein. The number of possibilities is,
as you point out, about enough to explain the selection uniquely of the residues, imposition of about 3.5 Angstrom from on
another along the polynucleotide molecule.
The comment I would make about to No. 20 is that I do not see the 12 to you rule out on the basis that they are D forms. The
?? Is on one side up the nucleic acid molecule, and there is a plan to access about molecule it apart at a chain is being
built up, we have the part that I changed South political axis. Hence all the 32 ?? Are to be considered as different. In
fact, I think that the number should still be multiplied by two.
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