Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger (with Commentaries) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789810224301)

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.

Author: Margaret Dowding
ISBN-10: 9810224303
ISBN-13: 9789810224301
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1996
Pages: 676
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.53lbs
Size: 10.49h x 7.82w x 1.65d