Altman, Sidney

Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002726

1939–Canadian-born molecular biologist who made seminal discoveries regarding the catalytic properties of RNA molecules.

Keywords: catalytic RNA; ribozymes

 Further Reading
    book Altman S (ed.) (1978) Transfer RNA. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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Sankaran, Neeraja(Apr 2001) Altman, Sidney. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002726]