Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called mRNA. Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it ...

As Tanenbaum and his team watched translation unfold, they found that at any given time, each socRNA was bound by one to four ribosomes and that these molecular machines exhibited varied translation ...

They observed that the mRNA emerging from RNAP was bound to the small ribosomal subunit (30S) particularly efficiently when ribosomal protein bS1 was present, which helps the mRNA unfold in ...

During the translocation step of protein synthesis, a complex of two transfer RNAs bound to messenger RNA (tRNA–mRNA) moves through the ribosome. The reaction is promoted by an elongation factor ...

An easy method for efficiently identifying proteins that interact with bioactive molecules has been developed by chemical biologists at RIKEN. This innovation, published in ChemBioChem, could help to ...

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The researchers found that ribosome-bound lncRNAs look more "mRNA like" than their free-floating counterparts in the cytoplasm. "In some ways, lncRNAs look like malformed mRNAs, ...