PCB 3063 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Start Codon, Intron, Spliceosome
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Concept of colinearity the number of nucleotides in a gene should be proportional to the number of amino acids in the protein encoded by that gene exons coding regions introns noncoding regions. Common in eukaryotic genes but rare in bacterial genes bacteria mrna mrna is transcribed directly from dna codon set of three nucleotides that encodes an amino acid. 5" untranslated region (leader) sequence of nucleotides at the 5" end of the mrna, does not encode any of the amino acids of the protein. Shine- delgarno the 5" utr in bacterial mrna. Serves as the ribosome binding site during translation protein- coding sequence comprises the codons that specify the amino acid sequence of the protein. 3" untranslated region (trailer) sequence of nucleotides at the 3" end of the mrna and not translated into protein. Affects stability of mrna and the translation of the mrna protein-coding sequence.