A complex profile of protein elongation: Translating chemical energy into molecular movement

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-238

  Abel, Kenton ^a   Jurnak, Frances ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION;

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, PHE;

EID: 0030584663     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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