A diseased cell is longer to produce proteins. Which cell structure is most likely malfunctioning?
1 Answer
The most likely structure is the ribosome. Also the machinery that involves the production of RNA (messenger or transfer) is another possibility.
Explanation:
Protein synthesis in a cell involves two processes: transcription and translation. In transcription, the gene that codes for the protein is copied onto messenger RNA. If the factors and enzymes are defective then transcription will not occur.
Translation involves the reading to the RNA message (changing the nucleotide sequence into amino acid sequences) This involves the ribosome(which serves as the site to match the transfer RNA with approprate codon of the messenger RNA) if either one of these structures are faulty, translation will not occur.
Some antibiotics work by disrupting the ribosomes of bacteria.
