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Section H - Protein synthesis
H3 TRANSLATION IN
EUKARYOTES
Key Notes
Eukaryotic ribosomes arelarger(80S)and more complex than
prokaryetic siboeomes (705). Initiation is basically similar in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes except that in eukaryotes at least nine initiation factors
are involved (cf three factors in prokaryotes) the initiating amino acid is
methionine (cf. N-formylmethionine in prokaryotes), cukaryoticmRNAS