Microbes from yeast to fungi are now routinely used to produce some ingredients more efficiently than plants or animals. But next-gen ‘cell-free’ processes that deploy some of the biomolecular ...

This narrated animation illustrates the process of protein synthesis, starting with chromosomal DNA inside the cell's nucleus. A gene is transcribed into messenger RNA, which leaves the nucleus and ...

A newly developed luciferase-based reporter can detect problems in protein translocation and disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Inspired by natural mechanisms found in ...

It is well known that many biological phenomena require protein synthesis for their manifestation. These include obvious processes such as growth, but also processes within the brain, such as memory.

Researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination codons. The protein involved provides a potential target for future ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In neurons, many proteins that are involved in the transduction of synaptic activity and the expression of neural plasticity are specifically ...

Plant Physiology, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Apr., 1972), pp. 596-601 (6 pages) During the transition of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) pith tissue to callus tissue, there were changes in the composition of the ...

New research from the University of Illinois challenges the premise that the brain must build new proteins in response to an experience for that experience to be recorded in long-term memory. The ...

One key enzyme in this process is MTO1, which facilitates mitochondrial protein synthesis by modifying mitochondrial tRNAs. It is known as an important enzyme indispensable for survival, and mutations ...

Proteins are often called the building blocks of cells, but even those building blocks need to be built. One of the most important steps in the process of building proteins is glycosylation, when ...