Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In the year 1977, the Archaebacteria or Archaea, the third domain of life separate from Bacteria and Eukaryota, was proposed by Carl Woese and George Fox. They had analyzed small subunit ribosomal RNA ( SSU rRNA) oligonucleotide fragments from 13 microbes before establishing this proposal. In the late 1980s, the use of SSU rRNA to describe […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata One of the main functions a cell performs is the synthesis of proteins. This is done with the help of a set of factors called “transcription factors”. A team of researchers from Uppasala University have succeeded in studying transcription factors that are several billion years old. The studies helped them […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Protein biosynthesis is the basic need of cellular life for which it requires the systematic functioning of the translational machinery. At the centre of this machinery, the ribosome is present which is a ribonucleoprotein complex and depends heavily on Mg2+ for its structure. Recent experimental studies indicate that other metal cations […]
