Shankar Parajuli

Jul 9, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Shankar Parajuli |Allen R. Buskirk |Brigham Young

Keywordsnascent peptides, ribosome stalling, synthesis, stalling peptidesCollegePhysical and Mathematical SciencesDepartmentChemistry and BiochemistryAbstractRibosomes are molecular machines that synthesize all the proteins for all living cells. Ribosomes sometimes stall and cannot complete the synthesis of a given protein. Some peptides interact with the ribosome during their own translation and induce stalling.1 The SecM and TnaC peptides in E.