Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A structure composed of RNA and protein, present in large numbers in the cytoplasm of living cells and serving as the site for assembly of polypeptides encoded by messenger RNA.
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- noun biology Small
organelles found in allcells ; involved in the production ofproteins bytranslating messenger RNA .
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- noun an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The active site consists of RNA (white strands), not protein (orange), supporting the conclusion that the ribosome is a ribozyme.
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In all, a ribosome is built from hundreds of thousands of atoms.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Illustrated Presentation 2009
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As the target of 50% of known antibiotics, the bacterial ribosome is a structure of major therapeutic importance.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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[AY] The ribosome is so important that it is a target for many antibiotics.
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This provides the most direct evidence yet that the ribosome is indeed a ribozyme, an RNA catalyst.
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Other structures showed how the ribosome is inhibited by antibiotics, how it promotes the interaction of mRNA with transfer RNAs, and how the whole assembly is organized
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The ribosome is an unusual catalyst, composed of three RNA molecules (four in some species) as well as dozens of proteins.
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Harvard scientists have created a biological machine in the lab that manufactures proteins, mimicking the activity of a cellular structure, called a ribosome, that is critical for life.
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PacBio's machine has also allowed Stanford researchers to watch the structure in cells, called a ribosome, which makes proteins from DNA code.
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