Ash Kothare Professor Hanke Honors Biology 19 September 2015 Paper 5 The paper, Function of Aggregated Reticulocyte Ribosomes in Protein Synthesis by A. Gierer, details the findings about a study to answer the question whether multiple ribosomes can operate on one molecule of messenger RNA simultaneously. Firstly, background information is necessary for understanding this paper. Ribosomes, the organelle where protein synthesis occurs, require a messenger RNA to be attached to it to be labelled active. Active ribosomes have an increased molecular weight due to the mRNA which in turn causes a higher sedimentation coefficient. The value of the sedimentation coefficient is calculated by timing the movement of a particle in a medium of known viscosity. …show more content…
A couple other techniques used were incubation, titration, sucrose gradient and measurement of radioactivity. Incubation was necessary to add the RNase to the cell so it would disintegrate into ribosomal units. Titration is the addition of one solution of a known molarity to a known volume of another solution of unknown concentration until the reaction reaches neutralization. Here the supernatant solution was titrated to a pH of 7.5. The purpose behind centrifuging the cell is to isolate the ribosomal particles from the cell lysates. The ribosomes are named by the sedimentation characteristics during centrifugation. The sedimentation properties of a particle depend on its molecular size and geometrical shape. Sucrose gradient centrifugation also known as isopycnic centrifugation, particles of a specific density sediment until they reach the point where their density is the same as the gradient media in this case the sucrose. The particles are then separated according to their …show more content…
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Small ribosomes scattered throughout the cytoplasm. No mitochondria hence respiration takes place on an infolding of the cell membrane
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After the initiation process is complete, amino acids begin to be added to the polypeptide in a three step process known as elongation. First, the mRNA codon in the A site pairs with the anticodon of an incoming tRNA molecule. Next, the polypeptide separates from the tRNA in the P site and attaches to the amino acid that was carried by the tRNA in the A site. The ribosome catalyzes formation of the bond. Finally, the P site tRNA leaves the ribosome and the ribosome moves the tRNA in the A site to the P site with its attached polypeptide. A new tRNA is then able to bind to the A site to start the elongation process over again. Eventually, a stop codon will reach the A site signaling the amino acid to stop translation
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In our Biology Lab we did a laboratory experiment on fermentation, alcohol fermentation to be exact. Alcohol fermentation is a type of fermentation that produces the alcohol ethanol and CO2. In the experiment we estimated the rate of alcohol fermentation by measuring the rate of CO2 production. Both glycolysis and fermentation consist of a series of chemical reactions, each of which is catalyzed by a specific enzyme. Two of the tables substituted some of the solution glucose for two different types of solutions. They are as followed, Table #5 substituted glucose for sucrose and Table #6 substituted the glucose for pH4. The equation for alcohol fermentation consists of 6 Carbons 12 Hydrogens 6 Oxygen to produce 2 pyruvates plus 2 ATP then finally the final reaction will be 2 CO2 plus Ethanol. In the class our controlled numbers were at Table #1; their table had 15 mL Glucose, 10 mL RO water, and 10 mL of yeast which then they placed in an incubator at 37 degrees Celsius. We each then measured our own table’s fermentation flasks every 15 mins for an hour to compare to Table #1’s controlled numbers. At
Cells are a very important part of our bodies that are necessary for our survival. Within the cell there are many different organelles that have many different functions. One of those organelles are ribosomes, and they are responsible for causing Alopecia. Cells are filled with thousands of these tiny ribosomes that are responsible for producing protein molecules, which are needed for all life processes. (Storad, 1998 ). In the ribosomes, a codon from the mRNA is connected to the anticodon of the tRNA, and this starts forming amino acid chains, to make proteins. (Renneboog, 2014).
mRNA is stabilized in the cytoplasm by adding a 5’ cap and a 3’ poly adenine tail, which prevents degradation by ribonucleases. The binding of miRNA can cause 3 events to occur; deadenylation, decapping, and 5’ to 3’ degradation1. Often in the 3’ untranslated region (UTR) there are AU rich elements (AREs) when the miRNA along with Argonaute 1, Argonaute 2 and Dicer1 is bound it allows rapid decay of the mRNA
The L7/L12 dimer stalk aids in delivery of the aa-tRNA ternary complex to the A-site of the ribosome (Diaconu et al., 2005). b) Codon recognition and selection Base-pairing between the mRNA codon and tRNA anticodon results in formation of a short double helix called the codon-anticodon helix. The decoding center of the ribosome (A-site) needs to distinguish between the cognate aa-tRNA complex (no mismatch between codon-anticodon base-pairs), near –cognate (one base-pair mismatch) and non- cognate (more than one base-pair mismatch).
Some ribosomes are found scattered in the cytoplasm (these can be referred to as free ribosomes), while others are attached to the endoplasmic reticulum (also known as bound ribosomes). The surface of the endoplasmic reticulum when bound with ribosomes is called rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER). Both the free and bound ribosomes have similar structure and are responsible for the production of proteins. Ribosomes are responsible for assembling amino acids to form specific proteins, which in turn are essential for carrying out the cell's
1.1 Non-coding RNAs The central dogma of molecular biology states that genetic information is conveyed from DNA to mRNA to protein implying that proteins are the main functional genetic output (Crick 1970). Even those few early known non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) such as transfer RNA, ribosomal RNA, snoRNAs and splicosomal RNAs were in the end required for mRNA processing and translation. The dogma might still be applicable to prokaryotes whose genome consists of approx. 90 % protein-coding genes. In eukaryotes, however, only about 2 % of the genes are protein-coding (Alexander et al. 2010) and those have been studied intensively. The remaining major fraction of the genomic output has for a long time been classified as genetic junk, as most transcripts had low or no protein-coding capacity nor cis-regulatory functions. Techniques like high resolution microarray and improved sequencing assays revealed that 98 % of the human genome consists of non-protein coding sequences compared to 25 % in prokaryotes. Remarkably, this increased proportion of ncRNAs (and not the number of protein-coding genes) comes along with higher developmental complexity. When proteins reach their functional limits, other regulatory components such as introns and other sequences coding for ncRNAs evolved (Mattick 2004). Coincident with the abundance of ncRNAs, higher species possess also more proteins carrying RNA- binding sites (Mattick & Makunin 2006). The demotion of non-coding transcripts as „transcriptional noise“ had to be corrected as a significant number of non-coding transcripts showed cell type-specific expression, specific localization in cellular compartments, functional relevance for development and p...
There are several naturally occurring ribozymes that have been identified to date; these are divided into three distinct classes. Firstly, the self splicing introns that fall into groups I and II respectively depending on their structure and the recognition sequences. Self splicing group I intron was the first ribozyme to b...
In 1998, the concept of RNA interference (RNAi) was first discovered and added to the complexity of post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in cells (Fire, 1998). The RNAi phenomenon was originally discovered in Caenorhabditis elegans where the injection of double-stranded RNA resulted in the decreased expression of genes with highly homologous sequences to the injected nucleic acid sequence. In the first step of the mechanism of RNAi, double stranded RNA is converted cleaved into short, 21 to 24 nucleotide long small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) (Elbashir, 2001). RNA cleavage is catalyzed by the enzyme Dicer, an endonuclease of the RNase III family (Layzer, 2004). The resultant siRNAs contain 3'-hydroxyl termini and a 5'-phosphate at both ends. In the second step of RNAi, these siRNAs are incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). Within the complex, a helicase unwinds the duplex siRNA and the resulting single-stranded siRNAs can pair with messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that contain a high degree of sequence complementarity to the siRNA. Following this in humans, the Argonaute 2 (Ago2) protein that is associated with the RISC complex degrades the targeted mRNA. The target mRNA is cleaved in the complementary region at the phosphodiester bond that lies across nucleotides 10 and 11 of the 5'-end of the siRNA (Elbashir, 2001). For RNAi-mediated cleavage and degradation of mRNA to be successful, a 5'-phosphate must be present on the antisense strand and the antisense-mRNA helical duplex must be in the A-form (Chiu, 2003.)
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There are huge numbers of genes in our genome yet only few of them express to synthesis mRNAs which encode different proteins. These mRNAs are collectively called as transcriptome and mRNA can be reverse transcribed into cDNA, which provides evidence for all mRNA transcripts. Hence, mRNA and cDNA are crucial for gene expression profiling and transcriptome study.