Protein Synthesis (Translation) Machinery and Mechanism
This text discusses the genetic code, the protein synthesis machinery and the mechanism of protein synthesis.
Topics
- eukaryote
- messenger RNA
- ribosomal RNA
- rRNA
- transfer RNA
- tRNA
- ribosome
- codon
- degeneracy
- genetic code
- nonsense codon
- reading frame
- anticodon
- peptidyl transferase
- protein synthesis
- Shine-Dalgarno sequence
- start codon
- aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
- polyribosome
- stop codon
- archaea
- elongation
- mRNA
- termination
- amino acid
- polypeptide
- translation
- initiation
- prokaryote
- 70S ribosome
- 80S ribosome
- A site
- CCA amino acid binding end
- charged tRNA
- E site
- P site
- post-translational modification
- pyrrolysine
- ribosomal subunit
- ribozyme
- selenocysteine
- wobble position