UCSD has the expertise to investigate the effects of toxins on gene expression and signal transduction. UCSD researchers will use this expertise to stu dy to xicant effects and develop new research methods to under stand how toxicants hurt cells.
Amino acids are the subunits of proteins.
Your body has different kinds of proteins that have different kinds of functions in the cells. Then messenger RNA guides gene expression and protein synthesis. There are many steps to follow to understand gene expression. One of the first is transcription, as described above. Special proteins move along DNA molecules and produce the mRNA molecules that are copies of the genetic information.