Author : Frederick Sanger
Release : 1996
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger by : Frederick Sanger
Download or read book Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger written by Frederick Sanger. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important volume is mainly concerned with the development of methods for ?sequencing? ? that is, determination of the order of the amino acids in proteins and of nucleotides in RNA and DNA. In 1943 the position of only one amino acid in a protein (insulin) was known, and Sanger's first paper resulted in finding a second amino acid. In his final paper in 1982 he describes the determination of a DNA sequence of 48,502 nucleotides. The papers describe the steady improvements in techniques, and exciting biological results revealed by the sequences.