Early Description of What Would Become DNA

Knowing what we know from X-ray and related studies of the fibrous proteins, how they are built from long polypeptide chains with linear patterns drawn to a grand scale, how these chains can contract and take up different configurations by intramolecular folding, how the chain- groups are penetrated by, and their sidechains react with, smaller co-operating molecules, and finally how they can combine so readily with nucleic acid molecules and still maintain the fibrous configuration, it is but natural to assume, as a first working hypothesis at least, that they form the long scroll on which is written the pattern of life. No other molecules satisfy so many requirements.

Notes:

"they form the long scroll on which is written the pattern of life."

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'Some Recent Developments in the X-Ray Study of Proteins and Related Structures

Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Conference Session: Astbury, William Thomas and Bell, Florence O. (1938), 'Some Recent Developments in the X-Ray Study of Proteins and Related Structures, Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Retrieved on 2011-09-14

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