Protein Synthesis
Proteins are macromolecules that carry out cellular activities encoded by an organism’s genes. They have many different functions in the body, including DNA replication, aiding chemical reactions (as enzymes), transporting materials in the cell, cell growth and signaling, and providing physical structure. Each cell in the human body contains about 1 to 3 billion proteins.
Proteins are synthesized from smaller molecules called amino acids in a cell’s ribosomes. Each protein is a chain of a specific sequence of amino acids. Since proteins are larger molecules put together from smaller ones, the process of protein synthesis is anabolic.
