TRANSFER RNA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does transfer RNA mean? 

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

1. RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFER RNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach the correct amino acid to the protein chain that is being synthesized at the ribosome of the cell (according to directions coded in the mRNA)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

acceptor RNA; soluble RNA; transfer RNA; tRNA

Hypernyms ("transfer 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 

This allele, which encodes general transcription factor 3C polypeptide 3 protein, is involved in the modulation of both transfer RNA and ribosome production.

(GTF3C3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes general transcription factor 3C polypeptide 5 protein, is involved in the regulation of the synthesis of transfer RNA, 5S ribosomal RNA and other small RNA types.

(GTF3C5 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase beta chain protein, plays a role in the mediation of translation through the regulation of the synthesis of amino acid/transfer RNA complexes.

(FARSB wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the processing of transfer RNA.

(ELAC2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in transfer RNA metabolism.

(CARS Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit E protein, plays a role in the regulation of the interaction of messenger and transfer RNA with ribosomes.

(EIF3E wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Another type of RNA, called transfer RNA (tRNA), binds to amino acids.

(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)

Mitochondria contain distinctive ribosomes, transfer RNAs, amino acyl t-RNA synthetases, and elongation and termination factors.

(Mitochondrion, NCI Thesaurus)