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Direction of translation of cDNA, mRNA and the corresponding direction of the translated protein.

  1. Direction of translation of cDNA, mRNA and the corresponding direction of the translated protein.
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Complementary DNA (cDNA) is synthesised by reverse transcriptase enzyme by using an RNA molecule(mRNA in most cases) as a template. The template RNA's 3' end is primed and the polymerisation happens in a 5'-->3' direction for the cDNA(complementing the template RNA's direction).

In the case of mRNA, the template DNA is unwound and one strand of that DNA(polarity 3'-5') is chosen by DNA dependent RNA polymerase to make new RNA stand in 5'-->3' polarity.

For a protein to be synthesised during the translation process, the translation machinery uses 5'-->3' polarity of mRNA to read the codons and add aminoacids in the corresponding(N--C terminal) direction.

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