Monday 23 November 2020

Human ribosome assembly has no counterparts in simpler model organisms

Ribosomes synthesize all the proteins in cells. Studies mainly done on yeast have revealed much about how ribosomes are put together, but an Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team now reports that ribosome assembly in human cells requires factors that have no counterparts in simpler model organisms.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-11-human-ribosome-counterparts-simpler.html