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Can you hypothesize why a mixture of poly U+poly A would not stimulate incorporation of 14C-phenylalanine into protein?



Can you hypothesize why a mixture of poly U+poly A would not stimulate incorporation of 14C-phenylalanine into protein? (Refer to the table below) 

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1.

  • RNA may form base pairing, during its folding or forming hybrid with complementary strands of DNA or RNA.
  • RNA have same purine bases as DNA: Adenine (represented as A) and Guanine (represented as G). RNA has Uracil (U) and Cytosine (C) as pyrimidine bases.
  • Thus, poly U will form complementary base pairing with poly A and will be blocked or unexposed for incorporation of phenyl alanine t-rna to bind to mRNA.

2.

  • During translation, tRNA carries amino acid to the ribosome, by matching anticodons to codons in mRNA.
  • The secondary structure of tRNA form the clover leaf structure with the anticodon arm having complementary nucleotides for base pairing with codons in mRNA.

Because poly u is complementary to poly A, Double stranded structures will be formed.

In order for an RNA to serve as a messenger RNA, it must be Single stranded , thereby exposing the bases for interaction with ribosomal subunits and tRNAs.


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