**Elite Fitness Interactive Muscle, Volume 1: Protein Synthesis**

[Ross]

Welcome to INTERACTIVE Muscle, where articles are scripted by the MEMBERS!

For those of you who do not know me, my name is Ross, and I will be your host.

In this first volume of Interactive Muscle, I would like to dicuss the most fundamental physiological aspect of muscle building, known as protein synthesis.

For starters, who can tell me what exactly protein synthesis is, and how to utilize this knowledge for muscle growth?

 

[needtogetaas]

First part is easy.

Protein synthesis is the creation of proteins using DNA and RNA. For synthesis of protein, a succession of tRNA molecules charged with their appropiate amino acids have to be brought together with an mRNA molecule and matched up by base-pairing through their anticodons with each of its successive codons. The amino acids then have to be linked together to extend the growing protein chain, and the tRNAs, relieved of their burdens, have to be released. This whole complex of processes is carried out by a giant multimolecular machine, the ribosome, formed of two main chains of RNA, called ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and more than 50 different proteins. This evolutionarily ancient molecular juggernaut latches onto the end of an mRNA molecule and then trundles along it, capturing loaded tRNA molecules and stitching together the amino acids they carry to form a new protein chain.[1]

Process

Transcription - Protein synthesis starts in the nucleus, where the DNA is held. DNA structure is two chains of sugars and phosphates joined by pairs of nucleic acids; Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine. Similar to DNA replication, the DNA is "unzipped" by the enzyme helicase, leaving the single nucleotide chain open to be copied. RNA polymerase reads the DNA strand, and synthesizes a single strand of messenger RNA (mRNA). This single strand of mRNA leaves the nucleus through nuclear pores, and migrates into the cytoplasm where it joins with ribosomes.Where protein synthesis occurs by the formation of amino acids.

 

[needtogetaas]

We use it to stay in a anabolic state and stay out of a catabolic state. Among other reasons.

 

[galaxy]

33 views in 5 hrs. I dont think you'll be coming back to host Season 2.

 

[lostinfitness]

lol

 

[the_alcatraz]

33 views in 5 hrs. I dont think you'll be coming back to host Season 2.

lol

activity is key here...Ross is not around much, therefore his threads don't get much views.

 

[martineznation]

lol

 

[lostinfitness]

oh well

 

[needtogetaas]

ross man ya dropped the fucking ball on this one.

 

[galaxy]

Maybe we could get Ryan Seacrest?