E-Portfolio Microbiology II Week 9
Hi. It is me again, Dodi!
This week, we learnt about translation which is the basic process for protein sequencing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwWavExcFI
This week, we learnt about translation which is the basic process for protein sequencing.
Translation involves “decoding” a
messenger RNA (mRNA) and using its information to build a polypeptide, or chain
of amino acids. For most purposes, a polypeptide is basically just a protein
(with the technical difference being that some large proteins are made up of
several polypeptide chains).
In translation, the codons of an
mRNA are read in order (from the 5' end to the 3' end) by molecules called
transfer RNAs, or tRNAs. Each tRNA has an anticodon, a set of three nucleotides
that binds to a matching mRNA codon through base pairing. The other end of the
tRNA carries the amino acid that's specified by the codon. tRNAs bind to mRNAs
inside of a protein-and-RNA structure called the ribosome. As tRNAs enter slots
in the ribosome and bind to codons, their amino acids are linked to the growing
polypeptide chain in a chemical reaction. The end result is a polypeptide whose
amino acid sequence mirrors the sequence of codons in the mRNA. Here is a link of a video on transcription and translation process where you can understand more of these two processes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwWavExcFI
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