How to Use ribosome in a Sentence

ribosome

noun

• Other loops force the ribosome to back up and then move forward again.
  — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• Then the question is whether the full parts kit will assemble into a ribosome.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
• Now, Zhu and his team need to make the remaining components of a mirror-image ribosome.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
• To find out more about that role, ribosome profiling was developed in 2009.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2018
• But there’s more to the nucleolus than just making ribosomes.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• This mimicked the way the protein naturally folds bit by bit as it is produced in the cell, by a protein-making organelle called a ribosome.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2015
• That each ribosome focused on proteins crucial for a certain function took the team by surprise, Barna says.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
• The mRNA in the vaccines enters the cell's cytoplasm, attaches to a ribosome, and is translated into the spike protein.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2021
• In life, messenger RNA carries the plans of proteins from genes in a cell’s chromosomes to tiny factories, called ribosomes, where those proteins are then made.
  — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2018
• The lipid spheres carrying the mRNA enter the ribosome, a component of human cells whose main function is making proteins.
  — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
• But the approach doesn’t work well when proteins are exceptionally large, work in complexes such as the ribosome, or can’t be crystallized, as is the case with many proteins that sit in cell membranes.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2020
• It’s Nobel Prize week, the one week every year when people from all walks of life and from all corners of the globe celebrate science, read about ribosomes, and give understanding particle physics a shot.
  — Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• Sutherland and his group had previously shown that analogs of right-handed transfer RNA molecules — which bind amino acids and bring them to the ribosome to make proteins — link to left-handed amino acids 10 times faster than to right-handed ones.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• Their target is the ribosome—a manufacturing plant found in all living cells, which reads the information encoded in genes and uses that to build proteins.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2020
• When food is restricted, or a metabolic pathway is silenced or slowed down, nucleoli shrink, making fewer ribosomes, and cells live longer.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• Frank is famed for developing a type of microscope that revealed the workings of ribosomes — the miniature factories that make proteins inside living cells.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• For example, the mitochondria is responsible for energy conversion, while the ribosome is the place of protein synthesis in the cell.
  — Anna Powers, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Nearby, a table was covered with large-scale plastic models of ribosomes, the amorphous, cellular protein factories that are essential to life.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• At the start of the animation, a ribosome (tan) is in the process of producing a connexin protein (aqua), based on information encoded in a messenger RNA molecule (purple).
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
• In 2015, Houseley and his colleagues described a mechanism by which yeast cells seemed to be driving extra copy number variation in genes associated with ribosomes, the parts of a cell that synthesize proteins.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
• Remarkably, all the protein in all organisms is made by the catalytic activity of the RNA component of the ribosome, the cellular machine that reads genetic information and makes protein molecules.
  — Jack Szostak, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• Remarkably, all the protein in all organisms is made by the catalytic activity of the RNA component of the ribosome, the cellular machine that reads genetic information and makes protein molecules.
  — Jack Szostak, Scientific American, 1 June 2018
• Baserga, of New Haven, is a pioneer in molecular biology researching the formation of ribosomes and their relationship with certain diseases and cancers.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Dr. Littlefield's accomplishments included playing a leading part in discovering the role of the ribosome in protein synthesis.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Dr. Littlefield’s accomplishments included playing a leading part in discovering the role of the ribosome in protein synthesis.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• Baranov's lab developed online genome browser for viewing ribosome profiling data in 2014.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2018
• Using traditional forms of electron microscopy, the cell’s machinery — the ruffled interior of individual mitochondria, the black flecks of ribosomes — comes into focus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Nov. 2017
• Naked mole rats, for example, have an unusually accurate ribosome, the cellular structure responsible for assembling proteins.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• These may change consensus ribosome binding sequences, transcription regulatory sequences, and other structures potentially affecting gene expression and overall biological properties of the virus.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024