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OpenStudy (anonymous):

is it possible to make protien without the interference of nucleic acid...as a reference take prion as an example.. what all of you say about that..prion is made up of protien but it dosent contain any nucleic acid..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I dont quite understand your question. Proteins dont contain NAs but are coded from them.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Its possible to synthesise proteins from Amino Acids in the lab

OpenStudy (anonymous):

but dna makes m-rna and it makes protien and if there is no nucleic acid how protien is formed and amino acids are attached on rna it means nucliec acid

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Sorry, you really have to stop and think about what your posting. It's hard to reply when the question doesn't make sense. Science is complex and broken English doesn't help. I think you may need to look into the ribosome

OpenStudy (anonymous):

plz dont mind but first look at prion which is made up of protein and has no nucleic acid

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Prions are infectious forms of proteins which were originally created in the normal way. Imagine a brain protein which is harmless. If something changed with the structure of that harmless protein which allowed it to become infectious and also change other proteins to the infectious form, that's how prions are conjectured to work (or at least it was 10 years ago when I worked on prion research).

OpenStudy (anonymous):

one question if it is the protein or form of protien nucleic acid present or not

OpenStudy (anonymous):

on theory, yes, if you could condense the amino acids into a peptide chain. Now, prions are lucky amino acids who happened to step onto a biological chain reaction. They cannot synthesis ATP by themselves, nor they could support themselves without a host. Imagine throwing billions of amino acids into a pot. Some of them will condense into peptides, some of them won't...Some of them fold properly, others don't. Some of them survive the environment, others don't. In the end, the conclusion is, you can, and it's already done in labs. Prions? luck.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanq to all of u

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