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  2. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction - Wikipedia

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    In RT-PCR, the RNA template is first converted into a complementary DNA (cDNA) using a reverse transcriptase (RT). The cDNA is then used as a template for exponential amplification using PCR. The use of RT-PCR for the detection of RNA transcript has revolutionized the study of gene expression in the following important ways:

  3. RNA - Wikipedia

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    In the cytoplasm, ribosomal RNA and protein combine to form a nucleoprotein called a ribosome. The ribosome binds mRNA and carries out protein synthesis. Several ribosomes may be attached to a single mRNA at any time. [27] Nearly all the RNA found in a typical eukaryotic cell is rRNA. Transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA) is found in many bacteria and ...

  4. Stem-loop - Wikipedia

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    Stem-loops occur in pre-microRNA structures and most famously in transfer RNA, which contain three true stem-loops and one stem that meet in a cloverleaf pattern.The anticodon that recognizes a codon during the translation process is located on one of the unpaired loops in the tRNA.

  5. Adaptor hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The template could consist of perhaps a single chain of RNA…Each adaptor molecule containing, say, a di- or trinucleotide would each be joined to its own amino acid by a special enzyme. These molecules would then diffuse to the microsomal particles and attach to the proper place on the basis of the RNA by base-pairing.

  6. Eukaryotic transcription - Wikipedia

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    Poly-A polymerase adds approximately 200 adenines to the cleaved 3’ end of the RNA without a template. [35] The long poly-A tail is unique to transcripts made by Pol II. In the process of terminating transcription by Pol I and Pol II, the elongation complex does not dissolve immediately after the RNA is cleaved.

  7. Transcription (biology) - Wikipedia

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    RNA polymerase, assisted by one or more general transcription factors, then unwinds approximately 14 base pairs of DNA to form an RNA polymerase-promoter open complex. In the open complex, the promoter DNA is partly unwound and single-stranded. The exposed, single-stranded DNA is referred to as the "transcription bubble". [6]

  8. Protein folding - Wikipedia

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    Protein before and after folding Results of protein folding. Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered three-dimensional structure.

  9. Nucleic acid quaternary structure - Wikipedia

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    RNA is subdivided into many categories, including messenger RNA (), ribosomal RNA (), transfer RNA (), long non-coding RNA (), and several other small functional RNAs.. Whereas many proteins have quaternary structure, the majority of RNA molecules have only primary through tertiary structure and function as individual molecules rather than as multi-subunit structures