Saturday, March 13, 2010

Find an interesting biochemistry website and put its link in this entry and describe briefly what is found there.

http://www.brookscole.com/chemistry_d/templates/student_resources/shared_resources/animations/protein_synthesis/protein_synthesis.html
This is a link to the animation of the protein synthesis. It is basically explaining the production of the protein with some pictures to accompany it and towards the end there’ll be review. This can be helpful for those who want to understand how the protein is processes.

Here’s a brief introduction: Protein synthesis is also called translation. It is occurring in the ribosome located in the mitochondria and chloroplast. In the Eukaryotic cell, the ribosome is usually attaches to the endoplasmic reticulum. While in the prokaryotic cell, there’s no endoplasmic reticulum, thus it’s capable to move around more easily. The proteins synthesize in three different processes. The first stage is called initiation; follow by elongation and lastly termination. Initiation is the production of ribosomal complex. Elongation is the process of amino acid forming polypeptide chain. Termination occurs when the protein left ribosome.

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