Non-coding antisense RNA can be used to stimulate protein production
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand a novel function of non-protein coding RNA: the protein synthesis activity of coding genes can be enhanced by the activity of the non-coding one called "antisense."