What are some diseases caused by misfolded proteins?

Q: What are splice sites?

A: Transcription has three stages:- 1) Initiation 2) Elongation 3) Termination In the last step, RNA…

Q: What are conjugate proteins? How are the classified?

A: Proteins are the building blocks of a body and play viral role in providing structure to cell and…

Q: Why protein is mutated?

A: Proteins are the building blocks of the cell. They are polypeptides made up of monomeric unit amino…

Q: What is repeating components of each strand lengthwise called?

A: DNA is the information molecule that stores instructions for making proteins. These instructions are…

Q: How is a protein with a proper sequence generated?

A: Amino acids are biomolecules made up of two functional groups: an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl…

Q: What Are Nucleosides?

A: Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group. A…

Q: three main steps in protein sorting?

A: To maintain the fidelity of macromolecule transport, elaborate macromolecule sorting machinery is…

Q: Why is the fact that protein synthesis takes place on polysomes advantageous?

A: Ribosomes are the site of protein synthesis where an mRNA molecule is translated to form the…

Q: what is protein sorting ?

A: Protein targeting, according to Gunter Blobel, is based on intrinsic protein properties rather than…

Q: How is genetic information expressed to guide the synthesis of proteins?

A: Our genetic code, made up of DNA, is used to control the synthesis of proteins. This process takes a…

Q: What are viroids composed of?

A: Infection is defined as the state of invasion on the body tissues of an organism, which is caused by…

Q: What are known as trans-acting factors ?

A: The process of making the RNA copy, known as messenger RNA from the DNA, is known as transcription.…

Q: What are truncated polypeptides?

A: Polypeptides are the long chain of amino acids connected together via peptide bonds. The peptide…

Q: what is centrosome?

A: Centrosome is an organelle found in eukryotes mainly animal cells, fungi, and algae but absent in…

Q: Explain the amino–imino forms of cytosine and adenine ?

A: Watson and Crick showed a mechanism for the spontaneous occurrence of transitions. Some of the…

Q: What factors can promote protein misfolding in cells?

A: A cell is the basic structural and functional key of life. A cell has multiple organelles that carry…

Q: Where is the centrosome located?

A: A centrosome is a cellular structure that participates in cellular division. The centrosome…

Q: What are The Effects of Mutations on Polypeptides?

A: The mutation is the alteration of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) that could occur due to change in one…

Q: What is role of polysome?

A: A polysome is otherwise known as polyribosome or ergasome. It resembles a bead on a string like…

Q: What is the major function of Shugoshin during interphase?

A: Interphase is an important phase during cell cycle during which the cell prepares itself before the…

Q: What are the difference between adenine and cytidine?

A: Nucleotide is a compound that consists of a ribose or deoxyribose sugar joined to a purine or…

Q: What is adenyl cyclase ?

A: Enzymes are present in living organism, which is composed of either one cell or a number of cell. In…

Q: What is Splicing ?

A: Introduction :- Exons (i.e., coding sections) are linked together to create mature messenger RNA…

Q: What is the difference between sickle-cell amino acid sequence and normal amino acid sequence?

A: Sickel-Cell anaemia is a blood disorder in which the specifically the Red Blood Cells becomes…

Q: What is the relationship between x-d-glucose or β-d-glucose? Are they mirror images?

A: Glucose is a sugar (monosaccharide) It possesses 3 carbon atoms and 1 aldehyde group. Therefore it…

Q: Which three effects of a mutation may have upon a cell?

A: The abrupt changes in the DNA sequence that may or may not change the sequence of a protein are…

Q: What are modified proteins?

A: The biomolecules are the structural and functional unit of the living system. There are four types…

Q: What is single cell protein? What is its significance?

A: Single-cell protein refers to the crude a refined, or edible protein extracted from pure microbial…

Q: Why do some genetic mutations lead to completely nonfunctional proteins while others do not affect…

A: A mutation is a sudden change in the sequence of DNA. DNA is made up of nucleotides. DNA is…

Q: How Are Thymine Nucleotides Synthesized?

A: Nucleotides are compounds composed of a phosphate and nucleoside.  They act as a monomer of the…

Q: How are tRNAs linked to their corresponding amino acids?

A: tRNA stands for transfer RNA. It has a clover leaf like structure.

Q: What is the function of histones?

A: Chromosomes are thread-like structure situated inside the nucleus of plant and animal cells. Each…

Q: What are histone and nonhistone proteins?

A: The DNA is the heredity material and is double-stranded which is composed of two strands but the…

Q: How does a polypeptide fold to become a functioning protein?

A: Polypeptides are formed by amino acids. These amino acids are held with each other by peptide bonds.…

Q: What does the allostery of a protein mean?

A: The term "allostery" has been evolved from past decades. This term has been coined from the era of…

Q: What is the fate of a protein with no sorting signal?

A: Introduction A protein is an extremely complex natural molecule made up of amino acid residues…

Q: What are the term of anticodon loop?

A: Anticodon loop:  at one of the two ends of the tRNA (transfer RNA) three adjacent nucleotide is…

Q: What are anticodon?

A: An transfer Ribonucleic Acid (shortened tRNA and in the past alluded to as sRNA, for soluble RNA is…

Q: What processes are involved in attaching ubiquitin to a target protein?

A: Amino acid chains are found in proteins. Proteins are folded with the aid of chaperones once they…

Q: Why might a protein precipitate when its tag is cleaved?

A: Precipitation of protein occurs because the change in pH or hydrophobicity results in the alteration…

Q: What are trans-acting factors ?

A: Answer:Introduction:Cis-acting factors is also called as cis-regulatory factors means reacting by…

Q: What type of proteins do redundant genes often specify?

A: Gene redundancy is when a biochemical function is encoded by two or more genes in a redundant…

Q: what are the factors that can denature proteins ?

A: Asked : Factors that can denature proteins

Q: What are autosomes?

A: Chromosomes are the rod shaped, dark stained bodies which are most prominently seen in the metaphase…

Q: What are 3 factors that cause proteins to denature?

A: The proteins are the biomolecules that serves as the structural and functional unit of the living…

Q: What are statins? Name the microorganism that produces this substance. How is it medically…

A: A drug is a molecule which might resemble a organic molecule inside the body or an exogenous…

Q: Histones are made of which structures?

A: The genetic material DNA is found in all organisms and it is found in the nucleolus of the nucleus.…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.