Charles Yanofsky

Charles Yanofsky
Born(1925-04-17)April 17, 1925
DiedMarch 16, 2018(2018-03-16) (aged 92)
Palo Alto, California
Alma materCity College of New York
Yale University (Ph.D, 1951)
Known fordata supporting one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, mechanism of suppression, attenuation of expression of bacterial operons
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics microbiology
InstitutionsStanford University
Websiteprofiles.stanford.edu/charles-yanofsky

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.

  1. ^ The International Who's Who, 1997-98. 1997. ISBN 9781857430226.