Professor
Charles Yanofsky
(
–
)
1925
2018
Stanford University
;
Stanford, CA
Molecular biologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Elected
1964
He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how a genetic message is read and translated into a protein. Using the bacterium Escherichia coli, his group was the first to demonstrate that the nucleotide sequence of a gene specifies a colinear sequence of amino acids in its corresponding protein. He also contributed to our understanding of the mechanisms of translational suppression. He and his co-workers elucidated the features of regulation by transcription attenuation.
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