Maclyn McCarty, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002350
1877–1955 Canadian -born US medical microbiologist whose work with pneumococcus led not only to important advances related to pneumonia but, surprisingly, to the discovery of the genetic role of DNA.
Keywords: pneumonia; pneumococcus; pneumococcal transformation; DNA
| Further Reading | |
| Avery OT (1932) The role of specific carbohydrates in pneumococcus infection and immunity. Annals of Internal Medicine 6: 1–10. | |
| Avery OT, MacLeod CM and McCarty M (1944) Studies on the nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. I. Induction of transformation by a desoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from pneumococcus type III. Journal of Experimental Medicine 79: 137–158 | |
| McCarty M and Avery OT (1946) Studies on the nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. II. Effect of desoxyribonuclease on the biological activity of the transforming substance. Journal of Experimental Medicine 83: 89–96. | |
| book Dochez AR (1962) "Oswald Theodore Avery". Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences, vol. 32, pp. 31–49. New York: Columbia University Press. | |
| book Dubos RJ (1974) The Professor, the Institute, and DNA. New York: The Rockefeller University Press. | |
| Griffith F (1928) The significance of pneumococcal types. The Journal of Hygiene 27: 113–159. | |
| book McCarty M (1985) The Transforming Principle. Discovering that Genes are made of DNA. New York: WW Norton. | |
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