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David
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Unless the poster can cite a more recent paperpapers to support the assertion regarding a difference in rates of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteinsprotein synthesis, I would say that this is incorrect.

Lacroute and Stent (1968) reported a rate of 15 amino acids per sec for β-galactosidase in Escherichia coli, whereas Knopf and Lamfrom (1965) reported a reatrate of 7 amino acids per sec for globin chains in rabbit reticulocytes. This does not appear much different to me, especially as a recent study by Li et al. (2014) showed that the rate of protein synthesis varies with the complexity of the assembly (if any) into which a protein is incorporated.

Unless the poster can cite a more recent paper to support the assertion regarding a difference in rates of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins synthesis, I would say this is incorrect.

Lacroute and Stent (1968) reported a rate of 15 amino acids per sec for β-galactosidase in Escherichia coli, whereas Knopf and Lamfrom (1965) reported a reat of 7 amino acids per sec for globin chains in rabbit reticulocytes. This does not appear much different to me, especially as a recent study by Li et al. (2014) showed that the rate of protein synthesis varies with the complexity of the assembly (if any) into which a protein is incorporated.

Unless the poster can cite more recent papers to support the assertion regarding a difference in rates of prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein synthesis, I would say that this is incorrect.

Lacroute and Stent (1968) reported a rate of 15 amino acids per sec for β-galactosidase in Escherichia coli, whereas Knopf and Lamfrom (1965) reported a rate of 7 amino acids per sec for globin chains in rabbit reticulocytes. This does not appear much different to me, especially as a recent study by Li et al. (2014) showed that the rate of protein synthesis varies with the complexity of the assembly (if any) into which a protein is incorporated.

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David
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Unless the poster can cite a more recent paper to support the assertion regarding a difference in rates of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins synthesis, I would say this is incorrect.

Lacroute and Stent (1968) reported a rate of 15 amino acids per sec for β-galactosidase in Escherichia coli, whereas Knopf and Lamfrom (1965) reported a reat of 7 amino acids per sec for globin chains in rabbit reticulocytes. This does not appear much different to me, especially as a recent study by Li et al. (2014) showed that the rate of protein synthesis varies with the complexity of the assembly (if any) into which a protein is incorporated.