Regarding the infectivity of naked DNA

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On 19 May 1995, Dave Knorr wrote:

> Re: Regarding the infectivity of naked DNA....
>   I don't think it's the earliest mention, but try
> 
> Fraenkel-Conrat H., Singer, B., and Williams, R.C. (1957)  
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>    ^^^^^^^^^^^
> Infectivity of Viral Nucleic Acid.  Biochim. Biophys. Acta 25, 87-96.

This paper refers to RNA, not DNA, namely tobacco mosaic virus RNA. It is 
the first full paper by F.-C., but not the first one on the infectivity of 
free TMV RNA, which is: Gierer, A., and Schramm, G. (1956) Infectivity of 
ribonucleic acid from tobacco mosaic virus. Nature 177: 702-703.  
Ted Diener