What provides the template/model/blueprints to determine protein structure?

Question

What provides the template/model/blueprints to determine protein structure?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

DNA is converted to RNA, and RNA is translated into a sequence of a amino acids in the ribosome.  Amino acids have different moieties ("R" groups), which differ in their acidity/basicity, hydrophobicity, and polarity.  The protein begins folding into its native state as it exits the ribosome based on these properties, as well as hydrogen bonds, electrostatic interactions (polar-polar), and sometimes disulfide bonds (between the sulfur groups found in cysteine molecules).  

The primary driving force, however, is hydrophobicity (whether the molecules prefer a polar solvent, such as water, or a non-polar solvent).  In a physiological environment (mostly water) the "R" groups that are hydrophilic (water-loving) will remain exposed to the exterior while the hydrophobic groups (water-fearing) will gravitate toward other amino acids (perhaps in the center of the protein).

An exact, predictable mechanism for protein folding, however, is not known.  Protein folding is a matter of great scientific interest and debate and discovery of a reproducible way to predict protein structure based on its amino acid sequence is considered by some to be the "holy grail" of biophysics.

Answer 3

Your DNA....in short, messenger RNA copies the DNA.  the mRNA then leaves the nucleus and hooks up with a ribosome; this complex has a series of 3 base codons which code for different amino acids, as the ribosome "reads" the mRNA, different translation RNA's bring the matching amino acid; a chain of amino acids is a protein

Answer 4

messenger RNA which is transcribed from DNA

Answer 5

Well, depends on the extent you're looking for. Ultimately, all levels of protein structure save for post-translational folding are done as a result of the primary structure - that is, the amino acids that transcribe it. Therefore, you can safely say that the template is the DNA itself (or the mRNA, depending on how you look at it).