Charles Yanofsky

Charles Yanofsky ( born April 17, 1925 in New York City, New York) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist and professor emeritus of biology at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

Life

After his military service (1944-1946) earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry Yanofsky 1948 at the City College of New York in New York City in 1951 and a master's in microbiology at Yale University, in 1951 a Ph.D. just there. In 1954, he was Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University Medical School in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1958, Yanofsky was a professor at Stanford University in Stanford, California, most recently as Morris Heartstone Professor of Biology.

Work

Yanofsky could explain the basic features of tryptophan biosynthesis and make fundamental contributions to the understanding of how to read genetic messages and translated into proteins ( transcription). In particular, he proved that point mutations in a gene lead to occasional changes in a protein ( colinearity ). His investigations of microbial gene expression led to the discovery and elucidation of the attenuation.

Awards (selection)

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