mRNA

English

Alternative forms

• mrna

Noun

mRNA (plural mRNAs)

1. (biochemistry) Initialism of messenger RNA.
   • 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains, Wired:

     When a cell “expresses” a gene, it translates the DNA first into a signature messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence and subsequently into a chain of amino acids that forms a protein.

Translations

messenger RNA

• Catalan: ARNm m
• French: ARNm (fr)
• Italian: mRNA (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: ARNm (pt)
• Spanish: ARNm (es) m
• Swedish: mRNA (sv)

See also

• mDNA

Anagrams

• NRMA, RMAN