Science / April 26, 2016 / Russell Hodge

Cartoon: Stress on the protein synthesis pipeline

Ribosomes live a tough life. They have to read messenger RNA and produce many copies of proteins over and over. Today, demand is high for histones: the proteins wich package DNA and consist of several different subunits.

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