Macromolecular mimicry in protein biosynthesis

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Nyborg, Jens ^a   Nissen, Poul ^a   Kjeldgaard, Morten ^a   Thirup, Søren ^a   Polekhina, Galina ^a   Clark, Brian F C ^a   Reshetnikova, Ludmila ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030628152     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00056-4     Document Type: Article

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