Amino Acid Quotes by Linus Pauling

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• An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single… — Linus Pauling
• One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being. — Preston Cloud
• A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a… — Francis Crick
• Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were… — Francis Crick
• This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely… — Francis Crick
• It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another,… — Francis Crick
• It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region… — Francis Crick
• The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code… — Francis Crick
• The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at… — Francis Crick
• A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence… — Francis Crick
• It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling
• That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and… — Edward Lawrie Tatum

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