BMB 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hydrolysis, Nucleophilic Substitution, Transcription Preinitiation Complex

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4. 5a mrna has a code made up of 3 nucleotide bases called codons. Since there are 4 bases (acgu) that can be arranged in 3 different ways we get 4^3 = 64 possible variants. Of course there are only 20 aa so this shows how we have several codons for the same aa. These 64 codons make up the genetic code! Methionine always serves as the start codon aug! Aug is the only codon that codes for it whereas most of the others have several. The other 3 are nonsense 9stop) codons that do not specify an aa but the end of the polypeptide chain. In 2d form trna takes a cloverleaf shape. It is made up of 3 stem loops and a solo stem. The solo stem binds the corresponding aa through an ester linkage. One of the 3 stem lops has a codon complimentary to one of the mrna codons so we call it the anticodon.

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