how are ribosomes formed and transferred to other places in prokaryotic cells ?

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Nov 4, 2006, 9:55:38 PM11/4/06
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hello ,everyone .as i know ,prokaryotic cell has no cytoskeleton and
its cytosol can not move .so can its ribosomes move ? what is the
mechanism ? whether they are formed here ,but transferred to other
places and function there , or they just function where they are formed
? can you give me a persuasive answer ? i need your help .

cognix2006

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Nov 5, 2006, 9:51:37 PM11/5/06
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THE FIRST PART OF MY ANSWER :
 
TWO CELL TYPES DOMINATE LIFE ON EARTH : PROKARYOTIC CELLS
AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS
 
PROKARYOTIC CELLS, BY DEFINITION, ARE CELLS WITHOUT NUCLEI.
TWO MAJOR LINES OF PROKARYOTES SPLIT SOMETIMES BEFORE
THREE BILLION YEARS AGO, THE ARCHAEA AND THE BACTERIA.
ARCHEANS ARE FOUNDS IN HABITATS THAT SEEMS MOST UNFRIENDLY
TO LIFE SUCH AS; DEEP IN EARTH'S CRUST BREAKING WHERE THEY USE
INORGANIC COMPOUNDS AS AN ENERGY SOURCE; IN HOT SPRINGS AND
UNDERSEA HOT VENTS WHERE TEMPERATURES EXCEED 100 DEGREES
CELSIUS; IN ANIMAL INTESTINES CONVERTING WASTE IN METHANE GAS
AND IN BRINE POOLS THAT WOULD SHRIVEL OTHER CELLS.
EUKARIOTIC CELLS, CELLS WITHOUT NUCLEI, MAKE UP THE BODIES OF
PLANTS, ANIMALS AND FUNGI.
THE SWARMS OF UNICELLULAR PROTISTS ARE, IN THEMSELVES, EUKARYOTIC CELLS. BUT EXACTLY HOW DID THE CELL NUCLEUS ORIGINATE?
ONE THEORY IS THAT A NUCLEUS EVOLVED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
LOSS OF CELL WALL, A LOSS THAT ALLOWED THE WALL-LESS MUTANTS
TO ENGULF OTHER MICRORGANISMS.THIS INTERNALIZED THE DIGESTIVE
PROCESS, SUBJECTING THE PREDATORY CELL'S UNPROTECTED DNA
TO A WHOLE NEW SET OF HAZARDS. THIS SITUATION SET THE STAGE
FOR THE SELECTION OF SOME FORM OF MEMBRANE PROTECTED DNA.

THE SECOND PART OF MY ANSWER:
 
A RIBOSOMES IS A CELL STRUCTURE THAT USES GENETIC INSTRUCTIONS
TRANSPORTED IN RIBONUCLEIC ACID (RNA) TO LINK A SPECIFIC SEQUENCE
OF AMINO ACIDS INTO CHAIN TO FORMS PROTEINS. THESE ORGANELLES
ARE PRETTY SMALL, MADE UP OF FIFTY PROTEINS AND SEVERAL LONGS
RNA STRANDS BOUND TOGETHER.
RIBOSOMES ARE FOUND DISPERSED IN THE CYTOPLASM OF ALL PROKARYOTIC CELLS: BACTERIA.
THEY ARE ALSO FOUND IN THE CYTOPLASM OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS :
PROTISTS, FUNGI, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS, WHERE THEY ARE EITHER
FREE TO FLOAT IN THE CYTOPLASM OR ARE BOUND TO NETWORKS OF
ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM WHICH ARE MEMBRANE-ENCLOUSED TUBULES
IN THE CYTOPLASM. ALSO, IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS, TWO TYPES OF CELL
STRUCTURE CALLED MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS CONTAIN RIBOSOMES.
RIBOSOMES ARE THE SITES OF PROTEINS SYNTHESIS, WHERE RNA IS
TRANSLATE INTO PROTEIN.
WHEN CELLS NEED LARGE NUMBERS OF PROTEINS, THEY MUST FIRST BUILD  NUMEROUS RIBOSOMES. BECAUSE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
IS SO IMPORTANT TO CELLS, THEY ARE LARGE NUMBERS OF RIBOSOMES
FOUND THROUGHOUT CELLS OFTEN  NUMBERING IN THE HUNDREDS OR
THOUSANDS.
IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS, THREE OF THE FOUR RIBOSOMAL RNA STRANDS
ARE SYNTHESIZED OUTSIDE OF  THE NUCLEOLUS, A STRUCTURE IN THE
NUCLEUS.
THE FOURTH RIBOSOMALRNA STRANDS ARE SYNTHETIZED OUTSIDE OF THE
NUCLEOLUS AND THEN TRANSPORTED IN THE NUCLEOLUS FOR RIBOSOMA
ASSEMBLY. RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS ENTER THE NUCLEOLUS AND COMBINE
WITH THE FOUR RIBOSOMAL RNA STRANDS TO CREATE THE LARGE AND
SMALLS UNITS WHICH ARE TWO RIBOSOMAL STRUCTURES. THE TWO
SUBUNITS UNITE OUTSIDE THE NUCLEUS JUST BEFORE THE RIBOSOME
BEGINS TO MANUFACTURE PROTEINS.
PROKARYOTIC  CELLS LACK A NUCLEUS OR NUCLEOLUS AND THEREFOR
RIBOSOMAL SYNTHESIS TAKE PLACE IN THE CYTOPLASMS.
WITHOUT THE RIBOSOMES THE MESSAGE WOULD NOT TO READ AND
PROTEINS COULD NOT BE PRODUCED.
 
THE THIRD PART OF MY ANSWER :
 
ALL LIVING CELLS CONTAIN RIBOSOMES, TINY ORGANELLES COMPOSED OF
APPROXIMATELY 60 PERCENT RIBOSOMAL RNA (rRNA), AND 40 PERCENT
PROTEIN. HOWEVER, THOUGH THERE ARE GENERALLY DESCRIBED
AS ORGANELLES, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT RIBOSOMES ARE NOT
BOUND BY A MEMBRANE AND ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN OTHER ORGANELLES. SOME CELL TYPES MAY HOLD A FEW MILLIONS RIBOSOMES,
BUT SEVERAL THOUSAND IS MORE TYPICAL.
 
PLEASE, TOMORROW THE REST OF MY ANSWER...
REGARDS.
DR. MAURICIO CORTE, Ph.D., GENETIC ENGINEERING,
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY.
 
 

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