Two additional categories of RNA play a critical role in the translation process: tRNA and rRNA. Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) molecules were initially characterized by how rapidly they would "sink" in a ...

More information: Megumi Shigematsu et al, Immunoactive signatures of circulating tRNA- and rRNA-derived RNAs in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Molecular Therapy—Nucleic Acids (2024).

There are three types of RNA involved in the translation process: messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), and ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Although some RNA molecules are passive copies of DNA ...

Three main types of RNA are involved in protein synthesis: mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA. mRNA is synthesized by the enzyme RNA polymerase. This occurs by using the sequence of bases in a DNA strand to ...

Ribosomes are composed of two subunits, the small and large subunits, each containing specific rRNA molecules. The main types of rRNA include: Small Subunit rRNA: In prokaryotes, the small subunit ...

These products are often proteins, but in non-protein coding genes such as rRNA genes or tRNA genes, the product is a functional RNA. Several steps in the gene expression process may be modulated ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...