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What are the subunits of 70s ribosomes?
Posted February 2, 2023
Answer
70S ribosomes are composed of two subunits of unequal sizes. The larger (50S) subunit is composed of 5-S rRNA, 23-S rRNA, and about 34 proteins. The smaller (30S) subunit is composed of 16-S rNA and about 21 proteins. 70S ribosomes play a central role in synthesizing proteins in prokaryotes and a few eukaryotes.
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The small and large ribosomal subunits depend on each other for stability and accumulation