When this happens during DNA replication, the result is an unpredictable change in the nucleotide sequence of an organism's DNA. This process, called mutation, is part of what determines changes ...

The simplest way to decipher the code would be to start with an mRNA molecule of known sequence, use it to direct the synthesis of a protein, and then determine the amino acid sequence of the ...

For example, a sequence for an mRNA molecule might be: AUG-GGU-CAA-UAA. Each one of these codons corresponds to a specific ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Grozdanov explained that alternative polyadenylation is an RNA-processing mechanism that determines how an mRNA amino acid sequence ends by selecting specific sites called polyadenylation sites.

Ribosomes read the genetic code in mRNA and translate it into a sequence of amino acids, which fold into functional proteins. Transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules play a crucial role in this process by ...

When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed ... Peptide bonds form between the adjacent amino acids to finalise the structure.

And it works selectively on certain amino acid sequences, rather than as a general inhibitor of translation from RNA to proteins." Essentially, what they discovered is that girolline acts by ...