Within the ribosome, the rRNA molecules direct the catalytic steps of protein synthesis — the stitching together of amino acids to make a protein molecule. In fact, rRNA is sometimes called a ...

Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular ...

HHMI scientists and their colleagues discover a new mechanism of protein synthesis. Ribosomes are the cell’s molecular machines, responsible for translating genetic information in messenger RNA into ...

Roberts in 1958. Subsequent studies by James Watson, Francis Crick, and others revealed the central role of ribosomes in protein synthesis, laying the foundation for our current understanding of these ...

Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in ...

So how does protein synthesis ... a cell how to make a protein. Actually, that's DNA's main purpose: to make proteins within the cell. These proteins, which include enzymes that do specialized ...

At this point, translation must be terminated, and the nascent protein must be released from the mRNA and ribosome. Termination of Translation There are three termination codons that are employed ...

Researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa have discovered that a virus, FloV-SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed to make ribosomes ... to encode such a protein.

The large subunit rRNA, in particular, is responsible for the peptidyl transferase reaction, which catalyzes the formation of peptide bonds between amino acids during protein synthesis. This discovery ...