Charles Yanofsky | |
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| Born | April 17, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 16, 2018 (aged 92) Palo Alto, California |
| Alma mater | City College of New York Yale University (Ph.D, 1951) |
| Known for | data supporting one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, mechanism of suppression, attenuation of expression of bacterial operons |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics microbiology |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Website | profiles |
Charles Yanofsky (April 17, 1925[1] – March 16, 2018) was an American geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon.