Institute of Innovative Research, 
Tokyo Institute of Technology.

2017.11.22

Press Release

Protein intentionally terminates own synthesis by destabilizing synthesis machinery — the ribosome

A joint research group of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kyoto Sangyo University has discovered that a protein, during its synthesis, may destabilize the structure of the ribosome1 and end its own synthesis prematurely, and found that this phenomenon is used for adapting the cell to its environment.