Video 15: Thomas Sakmar, clip 4

Thomas Sakmar is a professor at Rockefeller University. His lab works on the role of several proteins involved in photochemistry, specifically how protein structure is related to function. Dr. Sakmar has a personal interest in the work done by Phoebus Levene.

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Comments on some of the prevailing theories of the time and Phoebus Levene's basic hypothesis

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16353. Video 15: Thomas Sakmar, clip 2

Phoebus Levene's contributions -- the distinction between DNA and RNA.

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16354. Video 15: Thomas Sakmar, clip 3

The work of Erwin Chargaff and how it contributed to the downfall of Levene's tetranucleotide theory.

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16357. Biography 15: Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene (1869-1940)

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15672. Phoebus Levene (c. 1930)

Phoebus Levene, circa 1930.

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16342. Animation 15: DNA and proteins are key molecules of the cell nucleus.

Friedrich Miescher and Phoebus Levene research nuclein, protein. and DNA.

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16512. Biography 22: Har Gobind Khorana (1922 - )

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16526. Biography 23: Frederick Sanger (1918-2013)

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16137. HIV Virion annotated

HIV particle proteins annotated.

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15160. Sequencing proteins and DNA, Frederick Sanger

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