From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 10:11:32 MDT
gts wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
>> One more question: suppose that protein synthesis
>> had been stopped instead. How long before there is
>> a noticeable effect on your delivery?
>
> I'd guess maybe a second or two, at most, but that's only a hunch. It
> might be only a couple of nanoseconds. I don't know.
>
### Why do you think so?
You might want to peruse some data on the speed of mRNA synthesis and
processing, transport to the cytoplasm, protein translation, protein
processing, and protein trafficking. From cell tissue experiments, the early
effects of blocking of protein synthesis in neural cells take many hours to
show up, and a few days before the cells die. Blocking information
transmission at an earlier stage, in transcription, much more removed from
the day-to-day rendering of consciousness, would take even longer to
manifest.
Genes provide an infinitesimally small amount of the information needed to
specify a person. I really do not understand your fixation on them.
Rafal
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