The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
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I n f o r m at I o n for the publIc T h e N o b e l P r i z e i n C h em i s t r y 2 0 0 6 This years Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Roger D. Kornberg for his fundamental studies concerning how the information stored in the genes is copied, and then transferred to those parts of the cells that produce proteins. Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this process at the molecular level, in the important group of organisms called eukaryotes (which, as opposed to bacteria, have well-defined cell nuclei). Mammals like ourselves, as well as ordinary yeast, belong to this group of organisms. Cen tral to life ConstanttranscriptionofthegeneticinformationintheDNAisacentralprocessforallliving beings.TheDNA-moleculeitselfliesprotectedwithinthecellnuclei.Thegeneticinformation thereforeneedstobecopiedandtransformedintowhatiscalledmessenger-R NA,whichcarriestheinformationoutintotheprotein-producingpartsofthecells.Itistheproteinsthatin theirturnactuallyconstructtheorganismanditsfunction. If the transcription process is interrupted the organism will soon die, since all protein- production in the Ebook Relate: kornberg ebook nobel ebook chemistry ebook prize ebook process ebook nobel prize ebook how the ebook the information ebook information stored ebook the information stored ebook fundamental studies concerning ebook his fundamental studies ebook |
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