According to Kay, an intriguing potential application of chemical D - protein synthesis is the construction of a mirror -
image ribosome, the protein - making machine of the cell.
«A mirror -
image ribosome would provide a dramatically easier and more cost - effective method to produce usable quantities of diverse mirror - image proteins, and would be the heart of a fully synthetic mirror - image cell,» says Kay.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath first determined how to
image the ribosome, then revealed how it does its protein - making work
Not exact matches
The
image highlighted on the cover of Science on 17 June is a typographic illustration, showing
ribosome «trains» that travel down a track filled with signals.
The researchers are currently using the 4D microscope to
image the components of cells, such as proteins and
ribosomes, the cellular machinery that makes proteins.