Visualization of elongation factor Tu on the Escherichia coli ribosome

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6649, 1997, Pages 403-406

  Stark, Holger ^a,b   Rodnina, Marina V ^c   Rinke Appel, Jutta ^d   Brimacombe, Richard ^d   Wintermeyer, Wolfgang ^c   Van Heel, Marin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PYRIDONES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030770467     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38770     Document Type: Article

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