MCB 3020L Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Federation Of Trade Unions, Prokaryotic Large Ribosomal Subunit, Start Codon
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How does the ribosome recognize the codons. transfer rna"s (trna)s. Non- translated rna molecules that carry amino acids to the amino acid. Anti codon group of bases that are complimentary bind to the codon on mrna. Organism vary in there number there can be 20 to 61 trnas. The wobble effect of the third base pairing. Specific enzyme charged for each trna molecule getting the correct amino acid. Posses binding sites: t-rna, anticodon, amino acid. Since codons are read in groups of 3 there are 3 possible reading frames. Piece of rna that begins with a start codon, ends with a stop codon, and is translated into a protein. Wobble- different codons that encode the same amino acid usually differ in their third base pair. Allow less ridgid base pairing at the 5" end and the 3" end of the codon. Site on mrna known as the shine dalgarno sequence. 16s rrna binds to the (rbs) (anti- shine dalgarno)