Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002872
1911– American medical microbiologist whose work on the transforming principle of the pneumonia-causing bacteria led to the discovery that DNA was the chemical basis of genetic information.
Keywords: DNA; pneumococcus; bacterial transformation; transforming principle; deoxyribonuclease (DNAase)
| Further Reading | |
| 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 McCarty M (1985) The Transforming Principle. Discovering that Genes are made of DNA. New York: WW Norton. | |
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