rna
RNA
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Genetics.
- : ribonucleic acid: any of a class of single-stranded molecules transcribed from DNA in the cell nucleus or in the mitochondrion or chloroplast, containing along the strand a linear sequence of nucleotide bases that is complementary to the DNA strand from which it is transcribed: the composition of the RNA molecule is identical with that of DNA except for the substitution of the sugar ribose for deoxyribose and the substitution of the nucleotide base uracil for thymine.
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With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.
So too with a vaccine that provokes a specific immune response aimed at a specific RNA sequence.
These drugs interfere with the double helix zip-unzip-zip-again process of RNA and DNA replication.
Here, the blockage of RNA prevents extra amyloid from being produced by targeting its precursor protein and making less of it.
Its molecules bind to messenger RNA, allowing certain genes to be “turned off.”
Where protein synthesis is intense, the content in RNA is high.
Thus, the spinning glands of silkworms are extraordinarily rich in RNA.
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