Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...

Ribosomes are the sites in a cell in which protein synthesis takes place. Cells have many ribosomes, and the exact number depends on how active a particular cell is in synthesizing proteins.

The research field of "cellular IRESes" lay dormant for decades, as there was no uniform standard of reliable methods for the clear characterization of these starting points for the ribosome-mediated ...

Ribosomes are composed of two subunits, the small and large subunits, each containing specific rRNA molecules. The main types of rRNA include: Small Subunit rRNA: In prokaryotes, the small subunit ...

During translation, multiple ribosomes travel along the nucleic acid chain to build polypeptides that become functional proteins. Occasionally, these molecular decoders pause on the mRNA, either ...

I hypothesize that these ribosomal alterations may modify the composition of ribosomes in a neuron-compartment-specific manner, potentially leading to specialized translation during stress. To test ...

Almost all bacterial characteristics (growth rate, cell division, cell composition ... and processes (translation at the ribosome) have one or even several sensory roles, as well as more mundane ...

Shah and colleagues take advantage of the presence of maternal and somatic ribosomes in zebrafish and confirm their differential expression during development. The authors convincingly show that ...