Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger: With Commentaries

Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger: With Commentaries
ISBN-10
9810224303
ISBN-13
9789810224301
Category
Science
Pages
662
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
World Scientific
Authors
Frederick Sanger, Margaret Dowding

Description

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.

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