Nucleic Acids and Nucleoproteins. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Vol. XII. COPY OF SALVADOR LURIA
Published by Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.: The Biological Laboratory, 1947.
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xii, 279 pp; text figures (including a portrait of John Mason Gulland after p. vi; see photos). Original cloth. Spine sunned. Rear cover lightly stained (see photo). Corners of covers bent. Upper corners of pp. 31-43 creased. Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. COPY OF SALVADOR LURIA (with his signature "S. E. Luria 1948" on front flyleaf; see photos). Luria attended the Symposium in June 1947, but did not make a presentation. Milislav Demerec was the organizer and wrote the "Foreword" (see photo). Quoting Jan Witkowski on the Cold Spring Harbor website: "Demerec chose this topic to complement the IXth and XIth Symposia. That nucleic acids and nucleoproteins might be constituents of genes had been known since 1923, when Feulgen used his staining technique for DNA to show that they were components of chromosomes. The next development--the nucleoprotein theory of the gene--arose in the 1930s when Caspersson showed, using ultraviolet microscopy, that the amount of DNA increased markedly during meiosis, a time when the chromosomes were believed to duplicate. However, in 1947, it was still generally thought that proteins were more likely to be the carriers of heredity information, despite Avery's work on transformation published in 1945. Some did follow Avery, and André Boivin's paper on 'directed mutation' is remarkable, concluding: 'Thus, this amazing fact. . . is reduced in the last analysis (his emphasis) to innumerable modifications within the molecular structure of one single fundamental chemical substance, nucleic acid. . . .' However, the general consensus, as expressed forcefully by Mirsky, was that Boivin's assertions went going beyond the experimental facts. Not surprisingly, Chargaff, who changed his research program in response to Avery's results was more appreciative, writing that 'The epochal experiments of Avery and his associates. . . have emphasized the very important role played by some bacterial nucleic acids. . . .' He presented his methods for the isolation of high molecular weight DNA. "The volume opens with a tribute to John Masson Gulland, the English nucleic acid chemist who had been killed in a train crash on 26 October, just four months after he had participated in the Symposium. . . . The work discussed in this paper--Gulland's evidence from electrometric titrations of DNA that the bases were joined by hydrogen bonds--played an important part in substantiating the double helix. As Watson put it [in The Double Helix], ". . . a recent rereading of J. M. Gulland's and D. O. Jordan's papers . . . made me finally appreciate the strength of their conclusion that a large fraction, if not all, of the bases formed hydrogen bonds to other bases". ABOUT JOHN MASSON GULLAND: Witkowski cites this paper about Gulland: Keith L. Manchester, "Did a tragic accident delay the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA?" Trends Biochem. Sci., Vol. 20, 1995, pp. 126-128. There is also a detailed Wikipedia article about Gulland.…
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- Nucleic Acids and Nucleoproteins. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Vol. XII. COPY OF SALVADOR LURIA
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- [DEMEREC, Milislav] [LURIA, Salvador]
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- Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.: The Biological Laboratory, 1947.
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- Hardcover
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