protein synthesis

noun

, Biochemistry.

1. the process by which amino acids are linearly arranged into proteins through the involvement of ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA, messenger RNA, and various enzymes.

Example Sentences

Sleep plays many different roles in our bodies, such as the stimulation of protein synthesis, hormonal release, detoxification and memory processing.

From Time

Your muscle cells need water to properly repair damaged tissue through protein synthesis.

From Popular-Science

When cells are exposed to stress, Walter and others have shown, it can shut down protein synthesis altogether.

From MIT Technology Review

In fact, research done in the 1960s showed that when scientists chemically blocked protein synthesis, new memories were unable to form.

From MIT Technology Review

Leucine, a branched-chain amino acid, stimulates muscle protein synthesis faster than other amino acids.

From Outside Online

The carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen necessary for protein synthesis are undoubtedly obtained from carbohydrates.

From Project Gutenberg

Where protein synthesis is intense, the content in RNA is high.

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