Sentences with phrase «normal ribosomes»

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Allan Jacobson, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and co-founder of PTC Therapeutics, the company that developed ataluren, and David Bedwell, Ph.D., professor of the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have sought to understand precisely how ataluren allows the ribosome, the machinery of cellular protein synthesis, to skip over these inserted stop signs and produce proteins that have normal or near - normal function.

In normal cap - dependent translation, the ribosome is recruited to the 5» end of mRNA via a specialized cap - binding complex.

As expected, they found that the normal and extra-long genetic instructions were both translated into huntingtin proteins when they met up with a ribosome (the chef from our analogy above).