The discovery of ribosomes dates back to the 1950s, when George Palade first observed dense particles in the cytoplasm of cells using electron microscopy. These particles were later named "ribosomes" ...

Chloroplast ribosomes, which originated from cyanobacteria, comprise a large subunit (50S) and a small subunit (30S) containing ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and various ribosomal proteins. Genes for many ...

One year later, in these Hot Papers, Ramakrishnan's group described the complete structure of the 30S subunit at 3 Angstrom resolution, both isolated and complexed with antibiotics. This information ...

Evidence of human construction work is all around us: on the roads we travel, in the buildings we occupy and now even in outer space. But one form of “human construction” quietly does its job without ...

All cells need ribosomes to make the proteins necessary for life. These multi-component molecular machines build complex proteins by stitching building blocks together according to instructions ...

A three-dimensional reconstruction of the eukaryotic 80S monosome from a frozen-hydrated electron microscopic preparation reveals the native structure of this macromolecular complex. The new structure ...

Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell on earth needs ribosomes to translate genetic information into all the proteins needed for the organism to function—and to in turn make more ribosomes. But ...

At the end of the 1970s, Ada Yonath decided she was going to generate crystal structures of the ribosome using x-ray crystallography to establish the exact location of every atom -- considered an ...

Researchers reveal how cells regenerate protein factories at endoplasmic reticulum. Researchers at LMU and Stanford University reveal how cells regenerate protein factories at endoplasmic reticulum.

Ribosomes synthesize all the proteins in cells. Studies mainly done on yeast have revealed much about how ribosomes are put together, but a team now reports that ribosome assembly in human cells ...