Ribosomal quality control

Posted by on October 6, 2016 4:27 pm
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The assembly of proteins to form larger macromolecular structures within cells is linked to ribosomes and thus to their synthesis through the process of translation. Ribosomes adopt the role of a quality “checkpoint” in this context: They make sure that newly built proteins are directly fed into the production lines of macromolecular complexes.

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