Although RNA is a single-stranded molecule, researchers soon ... in a cell can "read" all 61 codons in mRNA. The opposite end of the folded structure, which is the 3' end of the tRNA, binds ...

In particular, there is an area near the 5' end of the molecule that is known ... Begins After the Assembly of a Complex Structure The translation of mRNA begins with the formation of a complex ...

rRNA molecules, along with ribosomal proteins, form the structure of the ribosomes and catalyze the ... undergoes several processing steps before becoming a mature mRNA molecule: After processing, the ...

To add multiple polyA tails to the mRNA backbone and create the branched structure, the scientists used click chemistry, which is a set of reactions used for joining two molecular entities. Additional ...

In DNA, two complementary strands of nucleotides pair up through hydrogen bonds between the bases (A with T and G with C) to form the iconic double helix structure ... The resulting RNA molecule, ...

Interestingly, mRNA is not particularly stable by nature and would be degraded prematurely without molecular caps protecting ...

She has a PhD in systems biology from ETH Zurich and a master’s in molecular biology from Utrecht University ... staining techniques to establish that both RNA-binding proteins and mRNA are ...