"The Origins of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine." Video Clip: Working with Karl Landsteiner on Immunochemistry. (1:43) (original) (raw)
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Linus Pauling: Well, I gave a lecture, Grand Rounds, at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1936. One of the people in my lecture was Karl Landsteiner. He had discovered the blood groups in 1900. He asked if I would come to his laboratory to talk with him, which I did. And later, when I was lecturing at Cornell, he came up to Cornell, to Ithaca, for a week, and gave me an intensive course - one of the best courses probably anyone ever got - in immunology, immunochemistry. So he asked if I could explain his observations on direction of apoproteins with analogous antiserum. And I didn't know anything about immunology and couldn't explain. But I began thinking and after four years, formulated my ideas. There were, at that time, two general ideas about how biological substances can show specificity - enzymes, antibodies, the gene producing replicates of itself and so on. One is the idea that in some way, the molecule produces a replicate of itself. The other idea about biological specificity was the lock and key idea. In 1940, I published a paper on the structure of antibodies and the nature of serological reactions.
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Creator: Linus Pauling
Associated: Karl Landsteiner
Clip ID: 1986v.9-landsteiner
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Creator: Linus Pauling
Associated: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: May 20, 1986
Genre: video
ID: 1986v.9
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