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Keywords: Trna, Subunit, Ribosomal, Mrna, Transcription

Related Terms: Codon, Cytosine, Deoxyribonucleotide, Dna, Nucleic Acid, Nucleoside, Nucleotide, Ribonucleic Acid, Genetic Code, Guanine, Guanosine, Ribosome, Rna, Messenger Rna, Bases, Degeneracy, Rrna, Nonsense Mutation, Nuclease, Nucleoprotein, Initiation Factor, Mrna, Transfer Rna, Adenine, Anticodon, Translation, Trna, Nucleotides, Polyadenylation, Protein Synthesis, Thymidine, Start Codon, Stop Codon, Gtp, Ribonuclease, Ribosomal Rna, Nucleic Acids, Reading Frame, Peptidyl Transferase, Nitrogen Base, Oligonucleotide, Aptamer, Base, Polynucleotide, Thymine, Uracil, Exonuclease, Polysome, Base Pairing, Biomolecules

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A multi-protein complex that forms at the site of transcription initiation and is composed of RNA polymerase II, ubiquitous or general transcription or initiation factors (TFII or IF/eIF) and gene-specific enhancers/silencers.

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The complex of proteins that initiates transcription. Also the complex that initiates translation.

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The complex formed for initiation of translation. It consists of the 30S ribosomal subunit; mRNA; N-formyl-methionine tRNA; and three initiation factors .

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Combination of a ribosomal light subunit, an mRNA molecule, and the tRNA charged with the first amino acid coded for by the mRNA; formed at the onset of translation.

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in-ish-e-A-shun COM-plex A small ribosomal subunit, mRNA, and an initiator tRNA, joined. 333

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