How do you stop a protein from being produced?

Question

You would like to see the effect of shutting off the production of protien Z in the cell. You have at your disposal to alter the cell however you wish (in vitro experiment). How might you shut off the production of protien Z without altering transcription of the gene encoding for protien Z and without shutting off production of any other protein?

Answer 1

Stop eating protein?. Key words in your question I see are, A:"shutting off production", B:"w/o altering transcription", and C: "paraphrase: specifically the Z protein". Now don't be mad if a lay-man (non-science person, srictly logician) can being to get at this answer. From the isolated parts of this question that I've collected, I would deduce that you first need to figure out what about the Z protien production is different than other protiens. There must be something along the process of production that makes a Z protien a Z protien. You need to figure out what part of the process that is. Then, you need to figure out how to stop THAT SPECIFIC DISTIGUISHING PROCESS. That can be any number of things I'm assuming. That way you would answer how to stop Z pro. production w/o stopping other protien production. Now, transcription, hmmm. I'm not sure what transcription is exactly but if has anything to do with altering the process, then my above solution won't work. Thus, I return to my original premise of "stop eating protien"; to clarify, while keeping in mind the specific 'trascription' (correct use?) to arrive at a Z pro.--not alter that exact 'transcription' but indeed halt production--would requrire that the process be devoid of the elements that allow that transcription to occur. What does that mean? Well, "stop eating protein" or limit the diet in such a way that prevents the needed elements required to make Z pro. Thus transcription is unaltered, just has no fuel. Problem solved. (?)

Answer 2

Hmmm.. are you thinking of suicide? You must know that protein is essential to all human beings as they must be produce to keep the body functioning. Every part of your body is made up of proteins. DNA is a protein itself.

Well, to stop the production of proteins. You can put a "thing" or person in a very HOT environment. So hot that it would increase the core tempreture to higher than 39 ºC. Doing this would denature the enzyme - well more like ruining the active site of the enzyme that would disallow it to bind with the other substrates. This would stop the production of protein immediately and kill a person!

That is why people are rushed into the emergency room when they have a fever reaching 39ºC!

Well apart from that you can also stop eating protein - which is pretty much impossible! LOL

Answer 3

isn't that what ADZ does ? aside from killing HIV infectee's

Answer 4

i don't know ask a kid from college