Term Name: translational elongation
Synonyms: protein synthesis elongation, translation elongation
Definition: The successive addition of amino acid residues to a nascent polypeptide chain during protein biosynthesis.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0006414]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is part of: translation
has parts: translation elongation factor activity
is a type of: macromolecule biosynthetic process
has subtype: cytoplasmic translational elongation mitochondrial translational elongation rescue of stalled ribosome trans-translation translational frameshifting translational readthrough
inverse has_part: translation
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of translational elongation
positively regulated by: positive regulation of translational elongation
regulated by: regulation of translational elongation