Sentences with phrase «building ribosomes»

Building ribosomes — the cell's protein factories — is like a strictly choreographed dance.

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These ribosomes may not build all kinds of proteins, instead opting to craft only specialty products.

Ribosomes join up the building blocks of proteins in cells.

DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) that carries the code to ribosomes, the molecular machines that build proteins by reading the mRNA instructions.

They all use RNA molecules as messengers to transfer the information from DNA to cellular factories called ribosomes, which then build proteins, which in turn drive our metabolisms and form the structures of our cells.

Noller (p. 1508) discusses how the basic building block of RNA — the double helix — has been fashioned into the intricate «protein - like» three - dimensional surfaces of the ribosome.

This marks the second time in four years that the chemistry Nobel has been awarded to someone working with x-ray crystallography; in 2006 Roger Kornberg took the prize for detailing the structure of messenger RNA, which is the molecule that carries the information the ribosome uses to build proteins, such as insulin or hemoglobin.

The latest such roster — 271 proteins identified in a compartment of the cell nucleus called the nucleolus — is a first step toward fully deciphering this organelle, a critical element in the construction of ribosomes, which build proteins.

Exercise also appeared to boost the ribosomes» ability to build mitochondrial proteins.

Graduate student Emily Thomas, synthetic biologist Jonathan Silberg and their colleagues built upon established techniques that attach bio-orthogonal (noninterfering), artificial amino acids to transfer RNA (tRNA), which are used by ribosomes to synthesize proteins.

rDNA is the genetic material that forms ribosomes — the protein building machines within the cell.

This is then directed from the cell nucleus to the ribosomes, which then build the protein from amino acids,» says Choe.

Perhaps other biological processes are also controlled, in part, by having specific types of ribosomes build particular proteins, Barna said.

STANDING OUT Scientists used to think that ribosomes, molecular machines that build proteins, are identical and interchangeable.

The three - letter «words» indicate which amino acid — the building blocks of proteins — the ribosome should add next to its growing chain of peptides.

LOS1 helps relocate transfer RNA (tRNA), which bring amino acids to ribosomes to build proteins.

It makes sure that the ribosomes within cells, in which the proteins are built, start and stop reading an RNA strand at just the right points to generate a certain protein.

Walter isolated the six building blocks of the apparatus and dubbed it the signal recognition particle; by the early 1980s, he had demonstrated that the apparatus recruits ribosomes to the ER, latches onto address tags on proteins minted on ribosomes, and transfers proteins to the interior of the ER.

Diamond - Blackfan anemia is a genetic disease that affects the body's ribosomes, which are small cellular structures that play an important role in building proteins in the body.