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Essential Cell Biology

Third Edition

Chapter 7 From DNA to Protein: How Cells Read the Genome



Copyright Garland Science 2010

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Summary of Achievements

Characterization of new  mammalian activators & repressors
Complex mammalian  logic circuit

Computational design of multicellular behavior


Adhesion of mammalian cells


Engineering of Notch-Delta communication system


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NOTE: [mRNA] weakly correlates


with [protein]

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DNA Microarrays Can be Used to Measure mRNA species Abundance

There are two primary differences between DNA and RNA


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Efcient transcription enables many transcripts to be made from one gene simultaneously

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In bacteria sigma factors direct RNApol to promoters


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The sequence features of promoters are conserved


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Consensus -10 and -35 sequences


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Ribosomes are recruited to the Kozak Sequence


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