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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973022303321

Autore

Maas Werner Karl <1921->

Titolo

Gene action : a historical account / / Werner Maas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770680-0

1-280-83501-X

9786610835010

0-19-974893-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

576.5/09

Soggetti

Genetics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I: The Classical Period, 1860-1940 -- 1 Overture: The Garden of Mendel -- 2 Building a Scaffold: Genes Within Chromosomes -- II: One Gene-One Enzyme, 1900-1953 -- 3 The Dawn of the One Gene-One Enzyme Hypothesis During the Classical Period -- 4 The Neurospora Era -- 5 Escherichia coli Enters the Field -- 6 Biochemical Genetics in Escherichia coli -- 7 The Chemical Nature of Genes -- III: How Genes Determine Protein Structure, 1953-1965 -- 8 Building a Theoretical Framework for Gene Action -- 9 Biochemical Identification of Adaptors -- 10 The Elusive Messenger -- 11 Deciphering the Code -- IV: Regulation or Gene Action -- 12 Feedback Control of Biosynthetic Pathways -- 13 Adaptive Enzymes -- 14 The Operon Model -- V: In the Aftermath of the Operon Model, 1965-2000 -- 15 The Floodgates Open -- Appendix: Further Readings and Comments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the developments that occurred between 1940 and 1965 in understanding the biochemical nature and action of genes.