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In a narrower sense, the formation of a "gene product" from the DNA sequence to the synthesized protein.
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Gene expression therefore includes all processes that are necessary to decode the DNA sequence of a gene and to synthesize the corresponding protein (switching genes on and off). Gene expression consists of two stages, transcription and translation. During transcription, the DNA sequence is transcribed into RNA (mRNA in the case of protein-coding sequences). Based on this, the protein is formed by translation of mRNA sequences on the ribosomes.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer