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Homopolymers -

Cracking the Code - step 1

What were the Experimental Tools?

polyu

Polynucleotide Phosphorylase PNP  
was discovered in 1955 by Marianne Grunberg-Manago and Severo Ochoa (Ochoa shared the Noble Prize with Arthur Kornberg in 1959)

Cell Free (in vitro) System for incorporating amino acids into protein.

Measure the Incorporation of Amino Acids (14C-Phenylalanine) into Protein

Marshall Nirenberg and J. Heinrich Matthaei in 1966

Artificial
mRNA

Radioactivit y
(counts.min)

None

44

Poly U

39,800

Poly A

50

Poly C

38

 
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Text: Genetics: A conceptural ApproachBenjamin A Pierce

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet, a true parrot, the smallest in the world.


 

 by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu