transfer RNA
- noun
- /ˈtrænsfɜr ˈɑːrnə/
- Specialized
- The transfer RNA (tRNA) carries specific amino acids to the ribosome to help synthesize proteins.
It tricks your transfer RNA and it winds up that that the canavanine actually gets miss incorporated into your proteins.
- It tricks your transfer RNA and it winds up that that the canavanine actually gets miss incorporated into your proteins.
Examples
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The ribosomal RNA is distinctive in that none of it is translated into protein; its job is to interact with transfer RNAs as well as the messenger RNA of the protein to be.
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The 16S RNA, says Pace, "is the business end of the ribosome." It serves a matchmaking role by lining up the anticodon of the transfer RNA with its corresponding messenger RNA codon.
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But change a crucial handhold with the transfer RNA, for example, and the system will fall apart.
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The dark blue components are transfer RNAs that bring in new amino acids.
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I will next time briefly end with the ribosome and how those transfer RNAs work to catalyze together the protein chain.
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It tricks your transfer RNA and it winds up that that the canavanine actually gets miss incorporated into your proteins.
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And your cells making transfer RNA, if they make a transfer RNA, a molecule that has Gag here, they only put leucine at the other end.
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During protein synthesis, transfer RNA molecules decode the messenger RNA sequence by delivering the correct amino acids.
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Each transfer RNA is responsible for bringing a particular amino acid to the ribosome as proteins are assembled.
Synonyms
A small molecule that carries the building blocks of proteins to the protein-making part of a cell
A small RNA that carries amino acids to where proteins are made
A tRNA molecule that brings the correct amino acid to the cell's protein-making machine
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'transfer' + 'RNA' so a learner who knows both words can infer it is an RNA that transfers something (i.e. has a transporting role), and many languages use the same compositional label. However, the precise technical function (decoding mRNA and carrying specific amino acids to the ribosome) is specialized biological knowledge not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so full understanding requires domain exposure.
Etymology
Transfer RNA is named for what it does: transfer means to carry and RNA is a small helper molecule, so picture a tiny helper carrying one 'amino acid' to the cell's protein-making machine. That's why transfer RNA means the molecule that brings specific 'amino acids' so the cell can build a 'protein'.