Despite what you probably learned in high school biology, not all genes are translated directly into proteins.
As a result, initiation factor proteins are required for translation of the message into protein.
Some molecules in food have shapes that lock into proteins on the surface of your tongue.
The name is inspired by the place in a cell where molecular fragments are assembled into proteins.
His "central dogma" formulated the view that once genetic information had passed into protein, it could not get out again.
So cholesterol is packaged into proteins that can shuttle the fatty stuff around your body.
These acids carry the genetic information in living cells and translate it into useful proteins.
It is the functional product of a gene which is not translated into protein.
It is probably post translationally cleaved into several proteins but this has yet to be shown.
It is the "factory" where amino acids are assembled into proteins.