does magnesium has any role in ribosome subunit binding?

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does magnesium has any role in ribosome subunit binding?

2006-08-30 18:52:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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The sub-units of ribosome become assosciated during protein synthesis and become dissosciated after protein synthesis.This assosciation and dissosciation is controlled by the concentration of Mg ++ ions(magnesium).
These structural changes by magnesiun ions in rendered possible because ribosomes are membrane less organelles.
So,magnesium ions can easily act on ribosomes as they dont have a membrane.

2006-08-31 03:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by sweetgal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

You may want to find the below mentioned article to see what they have done about Mg ion effect on ribosomes

2006-08-30 19:03:37 · answer #2 · answered by unstable 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Yes it does

2006-09-02 10:52:53 · answer #3 · answered by akbshetty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋