Sentences with phrase «more ribosomes»

Having more ribosomes made the plants grow bigger.

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But findings in Moore's lab supported the view that mRNA strands with more of the nucleosides that tend to form tight bonds are, in fact, easier for ribosomes to translate.

But when we put this restored ribosome into the original sensitive bugs, they get even more screwed up.»

«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.

Gerton hypothesized that cancer cells, which are highly proliferative and might need more than the usual amount of ribosomes, would select for expansion of copy number.

Getting at a mechanism for how DNA sequence could influence protein function, the researchers found that ribosomes density on β - actin RNA is more than a thousand times higher than on γ - actin RNA, and indeed all six actin genes had differences in ribosome density.

In the current paper, the shapes are made up of strut - reinforced tripods, which assemble themselves from individual DNA strands in a process called â $ œDNA origami.â $ Already, at 5 megadaltons, each tripod is more massive than the largest known single protein (titin, involved in muscle contraction) and more massive than a ribosome, one of the cellular factories in which proteins are made.

The helper complex lets the ribosome translate genetic messages into protein more quickly than the ribosome could on its own.