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.