291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

1471.201 - 1499.819 Venki Ramakrishnan

or it has ways of detecting when protein synthesis has gone wrong, when ribosomes have stalled because they've run out of amino acids. And what do you do about stalled ribosomes? So there's a whole series of control mechanisms and regulatory mechanisms. And the interesting thing is viruses will often hijack the ribosome. So they will shut down what's called the initiation machinery.