Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) is a type of RNA molecule that helps decode a messenger RNA (mRNA ... The tRNA molecule has a distinctive folded structure with three hairpin loops that form ...

Translation is the process by which a protein is synthesized from the information contained in a molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA ... Translation occurs in a structure called the ribosome ...

RNA polymerase II, shown here, is responsible for creating messenger RNA (mRNA), which is the main type ... X-ray diffraction crystallography data into a 3D representation of the structure of this ...

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of ...

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

Researchers have now uncovered the 3D structure of the RNA enzyme SAMURI. Their study provides insights into the development of ribozymes and the evolution of catalytically active RNA.

RNA in cells performs an astounding number of functions. Messenger RNA carries the sequences of active genes to cellular machinery that turns it into proteins. And transfer RNA molecules are an ...

DNA is a complex molecule that consists of two strands coiled around each other to form a double helix structure ... is copied into a complementary RNA strand. RNA polymerase enzymes read the DNA ...

When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA). This process ... amino acids to finalise the structure.