GEN-3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Archibald Garrod, Kozak Consensus Sequence, Start Codon
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Translation- aug starts translation: trna charging- binding of amino acids to trnas. *(charging- attach amino acid its responsible for to the trna) *not holding on to amino acid= un charged. Initiation - components assemble - mrna, small and large subunits of the ribosomes, initiation factors, initiator trna and gtp: 3 major steps, mrna binds to small ribosomal subunit. Initiator trna binds to mrna: large ribosome joins initiator complex. If3 important- keeps small and large subunit away from each other: for next step, initiation factor 2 (if-2) complexes with gtp. If-1 enhances dissociation of large and small ribo subunits. *ribosome has 3 trna binding sites: aminoacyl (a), peptidyl (p), and exit (e) *all trnas bind first to a site (except _initiator trna: elongation occurs in 3 steps: Delivery of a _charged trna to a site, requires ef-tu, ef-t, gtp peptide_bond formation between aa in p and a, releases aa in p (enzyme - peptidyl transferase from rrna?)