Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

More information: Natalia Khalatyan et al, Ribosome customization and functional diversification among P-stalk proteins ...

Protein synthesis by the ribosome can ... the addition of an artificial tag to the C terminus. However, the eukaryotic mechanism performs ribosome splitting, nascent-chain tagging and nascent ...

terminus, the team called the extensions CAT tails. Together, the evidence was convincing. “What all of this was saying was that we were getting a totally unprecedented mechanism for ribosome-mediated ...

The researchers found that a nascent two-domain immunoglobulin protein folds at its N-terminal end while its C-terminal end is still stuck in the ribosome exit tunnel, the birth canal for baby ...

Elongation, a crucial step in the translation process of protein synthesis, gets disrupted by amino acid sequences with an abundance of N-terminal ... in cells by ribosomes. This diverse set ...

Scientists observe ribosomal cooperation that prevents pauses in protein synthesis, revealing new dynamics for cellular ...

A joint research group of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kyoto Sangyo University has discovered that a protein, during its synthesis, may destabilize the structure of the ribosome ...