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Initiation of Messenger RNA Decay in Prokaryotes Dr. Sydney Kushner University of Georgia During the seminar offered to us by Dr. Kushner we learned about RNA and the recent discoveries they have done regarding RNA decay in prokaryotes. TRNA’s are molecules that transfer an organism’s genetic code into proteins. In prokaryotes tRNA bases are modified after these become synthesized. One of the bases modified is inocine, this base can then pare up with more than one counter base. E. coli has a total of eighty six genes; some of these genes have more than one tRNA messenger. TRNA also controls cell growth, which is another of the reasons why to its importance. A process than occurs in prokaryotic cells is polydenylation. This process adds adenine residues to the 3’ terminal of RNA molecules. In e. Coli 79 out of 86 genes follow this process. The last seven genes follow a different process, which results in these genes having a different starting amino acid.

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Initiation of Messenger RNA Decay in Prokaryotes Dr. Sydney Kushner

University of Georgia

During the seminar offered to us by Dr. Kushner we learned about RNA and the recent

discoveries they have done regarding RNA decay in prokaryotes. TRNA’s are molecules that

transfer an organism’s genetic code into proteins. In prokaryotes tRNA bases are modified after

these become synthesized. One of the bases modified is inocine, this base can then pare up with

more than one counter base. E. coli has a total of eighty six genes; some of these genes have

more than one tRNA messenger. TRNA also controls cell growth, which is another of the

reasons why to its importance. A process than occurs in prokaryotic cells is polydenylation. This

process adds adenine residues to the 3’ terminal of RNA molecules. In e. Coli 79 out of 86 genes

follow this process. The last seven genes follow a different process, which results in these genes

having a different starting amino acid.