Nature of the Biological Code

The dependence of cell-free protein synthesis in <i>E. coli</i> upon naturally occurring or synthetic polyribonucleotides

Marshall W. Nirenberg, Johannes Matthaei · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1961 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +8

General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins

Francis Crick, Leslie Barnett, S. BRENNER et al. · Nature · 1961 · 1.4K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +14

Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleic Acid

John Josse, A.D. Kaiser, Arthur Kornberg · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1961 · 755 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +14

Heterogeneity in Deoxyribonucleic Acids: I. Dependence on Composition of the Configurational Stability of Deoxyribonucleic Acids

Julius Marmur, Paul Doty · Nature · 1959 · 490 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +13

SYNTHETIC POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND THE AMINO ACID CODE, V

Carlos Basilio, Albert J. Wahba, Péter Lengyel et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1962 · 424 citations · Full text

Humanities, Archaeology, Ecology +17