Start here to make a protein: Structure of mRNA initiation complex could give insight into cancer and other diseases
Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 13:11
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the University of California, Davis and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K. have solved the the structure of the complex formed when mRNA is being scanned to find the starting point for translating RNA into a protein. The discovery, published Sept. 4 in Science, provides new understanding of this fundamental process.