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NIRENBERG, Marshall Warren (1927 – 2010)

NIRENBERG, Marshall Warren (1927 – 2010)

1927 – 2010

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1961 CE

#256.11

Characteristics and stabilization of DNAase-sensitive protein synthesis in E. coli extracts.

With Matthaei, Nirenberg demonstrated that messenger RNA is required for protein synthesis, and that synthetic messenger RNA preparations can be used to decipher various aspects of the genetic code. Nirenberg first re…