Sentences with phrase «ribosomes made»

Having more ribosomes made the plants grow bigger.

«The ribosomes make the proteins that allow bees to respond to pesticides, to respond to diseases, to respond to poor nutrition.

So the backed up ribosomes make a ladder of peptides,» Zaher said.

Not exact matches

This makes me happy: Research on ribosomes by Noller and others has led to the development of novel antibiotics that hold promise for use against drug - resistant bacteria.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath first determined how to image the ribosome, then revealed how it does its protein - making work

And with many large, complicated molecules found in and around cells — uch as ribosomes, which turn genetic instructions into working proteins — scientists simply could not make that happen.

The protein assembly line consists of microtubules that serve as train tracks on which the raw materials — including messenger RNA (mRNA)-- are carried to the protein - making machinery, called ribosomes.

The prize will be equally split between biophysicist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in England, biochemist Thomas Steitz of Yale University and molecular biologist Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, for their work in using x-ray crystallography to get a precise, atomic - scale map of the ribosome — the protein - making machine in all cells with nuclei that makes life possible.

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

When prompted, the tRNA synthetase charges a tRNA with the bio-orthogonal amino acid, which is then used by ribosomes to insert the tag into proteins made in the cell.

It works by isolating the protein - making machines of cells (called ribosomes), which turn mRNA copies of DNA (genes) into proteins.

«Among other things, the ribosome is an expensive machine that the cell has invested a lot of energy in making, and now it's stuck on an mRNA.

«But the ribosome didn't make mistakes.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by May Berenbaum and colleagues finds that bee colony collapse disorder seems to be related to bees» ribosomes breaking down, which keeps them from making the proteins they need to deal with stress and disease.

«We couldn't look at ribosomes in the extracts,» Simms said, «but we could look at the proteins they made.

They made short proteins, exactly the length you'd expect if the ribosome were stopping at the damaged base.»

The Emory team recently found that at least three genes modify the bacteria's protein - making factory, the ribosome — which is also streptomycin's target.

No prior life on earth — either evolved in the wild or made by scientists in the laboratory — is known to have ever had or lived with such a tied - up ribosome.

The ribosome has two key subunits, made of proteins and RNA, that do the work of pulling together and assembling amino acids.

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.

Ribosomes, which are themselves made up of many proteins and RNAs, read genetic instructions copied from DNA into messenger RNAs.

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).

During this crucial step, messenger RNA (mRNA), which is a RNA copy of a gene's recipe for a protein, is translated by the cell's ribosome into the sequence of amino acids that will make up a newly synthesized protein.

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.

Activation of a gene induces a cell to make an RNA copy of its code, edit unneeded segments out of that message, and splice together a final version of the message that provides cellular factories (ribosomes) with a template to make one specific protein.

Researchers applied the findings to a mouse model with a genetic mutation in a component of the ribosome — the machinery that makes proteins — and the rate of protein production was reduced in stem cells by 30 percent.

When Walter arrived in Blobel's lab as a fresh - faced apprentice, Blobel and his colleagues had limned the outlines of the so - called signal hypothesis, which purported to explain how proteins, which are made in cellular machines called ribosomes, find their pre-destined locations within cells.

transfer RNA (tRNA): A type of RNA that brings the amino acids to the ribosomes to make proteins.

Glutamine, unlike glucose, contains nitrogen, a key component of the nucleotides in DNA, RNA and ribosomes, which make up much of the mass of a cell — and that all have to be duplicated when cells divide.

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.

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.

You can think of translation kind of like what happens when a chef prepares his world - famous chili: the chef (the ribosome) uses his favorite recipe (the RNA instructions) to make the chili (a protein).

The mRNA is the vital link: the «courier» that picks up the protein - making instructions from DNA and delivers them to the protein - producing ribosomes.

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.

The ribosome is made of RNA called ribosomal RNA (rRNA).

The potent toxin ricin3 is made from a protein in the castor seeds that, if ingested (orally, nasally, or injected), gets into the ribosomes of your cells where it prevents protein synthesis, which kills the cells.