MESSENGER RNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does messenger RNA mean? 

• MESSENGER RNA (noun)
  The noun MESSENGER RNA has 1 sense:

1. the template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in the cell

  Familiarity information: MESSENGER RNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESSENGER RNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The template for protein synthesis; the form of RNA that carries information from DNA in the nucleus to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in the cell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

informational RNA; messenger RNA; mRNA; template RNA

Hypernyms ("messenger RNA" is a kind of...):

ribonucleic acid; RNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell)

 Context examples 

The sequences of a gene that are present in the final, mature, spliced messenger RNA molecule from that gene.

(Exon, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E type 2 protein, is involved in the modulation of the secondary structure of messenger RNA.

(EIF4E2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit epsilon protein, is involved in the regulation of messenger RNA translation.

(EIF2B5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes eukaryotic translation initiation factor 1 protein, plays a role that is essential for the initiation of messenger RNA translation.

(EIF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The sequence of DNA present in mature messenger RNA, some of which encodes the amino acids of a protein.

(Exon, NCI Dictionary)

This allele, which encodes transcription initiation factor IIE subunit beta protein, is involved in the regulation of the progression of messenger RNA transcription.

(GTF2F2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes transcription initiation factor IIE subunit alpha protein, is involved in the promotion of messenger RNA elongation.

(GTF2E1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the agents used to treat the ova was messenger RNA from the human Kdm4d gene.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

This allele, which encodes transcription initiation factor IIE subunit beta protein, is involved in the modulation of messenger RNA transcription.

(GTF2E2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Isoprenylation Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, enzymatic activities involved in covalent addition of prenyl and multiprenyl residues to polypeptide chains after assembly from messenger RNA at the ribosome.

(Isoprenylation Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)