Form 4 - Protein Synthesis

 

 

Protein Synthesis, Translation

 

 

Translation - the process of converting the mRNA codon sequences into an amino acid polypeptide chain.

1. Initiation - A ribosome attatches to the mRNA and starts to code at the FMet codon (usualy AUG, sometimes GUG or UUG). 
2. Elongation - tRNA brings the corresponding amino acid to each codon as the ribosome moves down the mRNA strand. 
3. Termination - Reading of the final mRNA codon (aka the STOP codon), which ends the sythesis of the peptide chain and releases it.

 

 

 

 

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