translocation
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removal of things from one place to another; substitution of one thing for another.
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Although catalysis of the peptide bond involves the C2 hydroxyl of RNA's P-site adenosine in a proton shuttle mechanism, other steps in protein synthesis (such as translocation) are caused by changes in protein conformations.
Apart from neo-Darwinian mechanisms such as mutation, translocation and duplication of genes, novelty may also arise by mutation-driven changes in gene regulation.
A reduced uptake and translocation, or sequestration of the herbicide, may also result in an insufficient herbicide transport to the target site.
Although cargo passes through the pore with the assistance of chaperone proteins, the translocation through the pore itself is not energy dependent.
"Co-translational targeting and translocation of the amino terminus of opsin across the endoplasmic membrane requires GTP but not ATP".
Double-stranded breakages are especially damaging and hard to repair, producing translocation and deletion of part of a chromosome.