Penicillin

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The material consists of orrespondence from Martin Rivers Pollock with N. Citri and publishers re. the article, 'The biochemistry and function of penicillinase' with N. Citri, Advances in Enzmology (1966), vol 28.

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The material consists of correspondence between Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., Greenford, Middlesex and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1949-1964.

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The material consists of correspondence between Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1950-1963.

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The material consists of correspondence between J.S.B Haldane and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1954-1963. It mainly relates to the genetics of penicillinase.

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The material consists of correspondence between R.N.Hendler and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1954-1962. It relates to research on penicillinase and visits. Hendler was based initially at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, later returning to the US to work at the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

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The material consists of correspondence between D. Herbert and Martin Rivers Pollock, c. 1951-1961. It relates to work on penicillinase and visits to Porton. Herbert worked at the Microbiological Research Department, Experimental Station, Porton, Wiltshire.

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The material consists of 'Heritable mass conversion of a mutant, penicillinase-negative culture of Bacillus cereus to a positive fully de-repressed state' with Joan Fleming, Journal of General Microbiology, vol. 58 (1969), marked proof copy.

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The material conisists of notes for 3 undated lectures by Martin Rivers Pollock: 'Human genetic engineering'; 'Induced formation of enzymes'; 'Molecular "mistakes" '; and 'Neutralising antibodies to B. cereus Pencillinase'.

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The material consists of correspondence between J. Imsande and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1964-1972. It mainly relates to work on penicillinase and a year in Edinburgh, 1968-1969.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Section L, Correspondence, is by far the most substantial and comprehensive section in the collection. Pollock kept his correspondence - incoming letters and carbon copies of outgoing letters - in a single alphabetical sequence ordered by correspondent and this arrangement has been retained. It includes correspondence with some of the most distinguished biochemists, microbiologists and molecular biologists of the day, including E.P. Abraham, M. Cohn, F.H.C. Crick, E.F. Gale, W.E. van...