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 ...

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 ...

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 their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular ...

called the messenger RNA (mRNA), to make a new protein. While much is known about how the ribosome decodes mRNAs, a process known as 'translation', a key outstanding question was how the ribosome ...

Researchers discovered that the mRNA modification m6A triggers rapid degradation, regulating protein production. This ...

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.

Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by ... alter the shape and function of the ribosome. Cells use these tags to fine tune protein production.

Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it into protein. But this step has been a visual mystery: scientists previously did not know how the ribosome attaches to and ...

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 ...

Both antibiotics tamper with bacteria's ability to make new proteins by ... alter the shape and function of the ribosome. Cells use these tags to fine tune protein production.