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Nucleotide Chain Gang

from 시​신​시​대 by Not Jeremy Jones

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This track is all about the process from DNA to protein and touches on the presence of Transposons within the genome. The ever present force of evolution is also hinted upon.

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Lemme tell you a story
about four individuals I know

They been on a chain gang
for a real long time now

Stuck in a nuclear prison
tied to one another for eternity

Adenine and Guanine, the Purines

Thymine and Cytosine the Pyrimidines

always waitin for that m-train to pass on by.

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Adenine with Thymine bound two times
Guanine with Cytosine bound three times

The Purines and Pyrimidines twisting along the track
persisting through time.
Blindly following a path laid by none.

They lie in wait for Polymerase complex
See the T box bend
The train's a'commin to break those bonds

Cap the 5 prime and splice those introns
So with the 3 prime tail
they set sail.

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take it through the pore
that nuclear pore!

gonna make it home
down in the ribosome

pass it to the bay
with the transfer RNA

Gonna make those proteins
Start with methionine

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back inside the nucleus
a different scene approaches us

Transposable elements
though to be miscreants

Got no home
so they move around the genome

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They got at least three different gangs of transposons

DNA-Mediated with the short inverted repeats

Retrotransposons with their LTRs

And the rest hitch on lost promoters

The SINES and LINES ahead of me

Waiting for their turn in the race

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Aeons of incarceration
Leading to wonderous things

they know not where they are going
Nor where they have been

Trapped by a blind warden
A force that can't be seen

It has no intentions
for anything

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from 시​신​시​대, released May 11, 2011
지봉구 - Programming, Vocals, Guitars, Synthesiser

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