Biology 1002B Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 5 - Cofactor (biochemistry), Opsin, MicroRNA

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Dna is transcribed into rna (mrna, trna or rrna) mrna is translated into a polypeptide. Note: polypeptides usually have no function because they have not yet folded, proteins have acquired a 3d shape. Measuring gene expression: measuring protein abundance (for a gene which encodes a protein), transcript abundance. Transcript abundance and protein abundance are both products of two processes (rate of transcription/translation and rate of mrna/ protein degradation) Within cells, trna and rrna are quite stable. It is a good thing that mrna is unstable and degrades because it allows temporal. Regulation of gene expression (control of timing of gene expression and subtle control of protein abundance) If you switch o transcription, the mrna pool will go away right away and will stop making protein that you don"t want. The majority of rna is ribosomal (rrna), mrna is only 3% of total rna, the rest is trna.

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