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Does AUG occur only at the start of a protein? How can a ribosome “know” which AUGs represent start codons? What is the actual link between the amino acid and the mRNA molecule? (IOW=What are the “translating” tools that translate RNA language into amino acid(protein) language?hint#2=there are 64 of them)
Yes, AUG is the start codon and it occurs always at the start
and it codes for methionine.
Ribosomes will associate itself to the mRNA codon at the start of
initiation stage of translation. And it will recognise start codon
AUG that also encoded for amino acid methionine.
mRNA molecules are linked to the amino acid as protein are formed
by the process of translation. And translation is defined as
synthesis of protein from mRNA. Amino acids are building blocks of
protein so we can say that amino acids are linked to mRNA.
Also, transfer RNA(tRNA) will form a link between mRNA codon and
the corresponding amino acid which the mRNA will encode. tRNA has
two ends where one end of tRNA consist of sequence of 3 nucleotides
that will bind to the specific codon on mRNA and these sequence is
called as anticodon. And another end of tRNA specifically carry the
amino acid that is encoded by the mRNA codon.
The tools which are involved in translation are -
Ribosome is the molecule which is used to translate the mRNA into
the protein having the sequence of amino acid which is very
specific.
tRNA is the molecule which will bring the specific amino acid to
the site of ribosome that is encoded by the codon on mRNA
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