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At the end of the 1950s Hoagland and Zamecnik had succeeded in obtaining an in vitro protein synthesis from ribosomes and crude acellular extracts. Ribosomes cannot by themselves achieve a specific protein synthesis and require an information originating in last analysis in the genes.
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Cohen, G.N. (2014). Transcription: RNA Polymerase. In: Microbial Biochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8908-0_15
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