Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular machines for protein synthesis, make all proteins in life and do so by piecing together one amino acid building block at a time.

Ribosomes synthesize all the proteins in cells. Studies mainly done on yeast have revealed much about how ribosomes are put together, but a team now reports that ribosome assembly in human cells ...

image: A ribosome (gray) creates a protein by translating the genetic code within an mRNA molecule (blue). Once it reaches the stop signal, it releases the protein (orange string of beads) and is ...

This study revealed that as ribosomes translate mRNA, the biochemistry and biophysics of aminoacyl-tRNA is very different in human ribosomes, and much slower. Structural factors in the human ribosome, ...

Tiny protein factories, or ribosomes, have been made to self-replicate outside a living cell for the first time. The achievement is a crucial step towards building self-replicating artificial ...

The ribosome is made up of proteins and strands of RNA, a chemical relative of DNA. It has two interlocked parts that behave as a single molecular machine to assemble all of the cell's protein ...

The ribosome lowers the entropic penalty of protein folding. Nature, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07784-4; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; University College London.