Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist (1925ā2018) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925[1] ā March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.
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Born | (1925-04-17)April 17, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | March 16, 2018(2018-03-16) (aged 92) Palo Alto, California |
Alma mater | City College of New York Yale University (Ph.D, 1951) |
Known for | data supporting one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, mechanism of suppression, attenuation of expression of bacterial operons |
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Fields | Genetics microbiology |
Institutions | Stanford University |
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