Viruses, deoxyribonucleic acids tobacco-mosaic

Solutions of rod-like entities in a normally isotropic solvent often form liquid-crystal phases for sufficiently high solute concentration. These anisotropic solution mesophases are called lyotropic liquid crystals". Although the rod-like entities are usually quite large compared with typical thermotropic liquid-crystal mesogens, their axial ratios are seldom greater than 15. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), certain viruses (e.g., tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)), and many synthetic poly-... 

Because Franklin and Wilkins were hardly speaking to each other, Franklin left King s College in 1953 for Birkbeck College, also in London, where she finished her DNA work and became head of the team studying tobacco mosaic virus. Franklin died of ovarian cancer on April 16, 1958, at the age of 37. see also Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Double Helix Pauling, Linus Watson, James Dewey. 

DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid RNA, ribonucleic acid BSA, bovine serum albumin HSA, human serum albumin HRP, horse-radish peroxidase TMV, tobacco mosaic virus... 

Fig. 17.10. Infrared spectra of tobacco mosaic virus, MI and T4 bacteriophage, and deoxyribonucleic and ribonucleic acids. (Kull and Grimm, 1956c.)...

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