Sentences with phrase «ribosomes help»

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The ability of RNA to orchestrate large - scale conformational changes may help explain why the ribosome and the spliceosome are RNA - based machines.

Roughly half of all antibiotics attack pathogens» ribosomes, so understanding how the drugs fit into and disturb ribosomes» proper functioning could enable the discovery of new antibiotics to help stem the tide of rising antibiotic resistant strains.

The following year, Frank prepared ribosomes, cellular structures that help make proteins, using the cryo - EM method.

Ribosomes decipher the sequence of an mRNA with the help of small cloverleaf shaped molecules called «transfer» or tRNA.

Among the key elements engineers need to get an organism such as E. coli to make a protein from a synthesized gene are extra sequences such as promoters (to help the cell make RNA from DNA) and ribosome binding sites (or RBS, which the cell needs to make proteins from the RNA).

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

Now, John Chaput and his colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have produced the first genome - wide investigation of cap - independent translation, identifying thousands of mRNA sequences that act as Translation Enhancing Elements (TEEs), which are RNA sequences upstream of the coding region that help recruit the ribosome to the translation start site.

A ribosome is helped by ATP, which powers it as it walks along the messenger RNA and as it stitches the amino acids together.

Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is the form of RNA that helps transfer genetic information from inside the cell nucleus to ribosomes in the cytoplasm.

Wolin and her colleagues had begun to answer questions about Ro's function when their earlier experiments demonstrated that the Ro protein binds to small RNA molecules that are misfolded versions of those that help make up the cell's ribosomes, which are its protein assembly lines.

Just like a chef sometimes has the help of an assistant chef when making his cuisine, ribosomes sometimes get a little bit of help making proteins.