Mutations at nucleotides G2251 and U2585 of 23 S rRNA perturb the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 266, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-50

  Green, Rachel ^a   Samaha, Raymond R ^a,b   Noller, Harry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Array Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimeric reconstitution; Peptidyl transferase; Ribosome; rRNA mutants; tRNA binding

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0031566952     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0780     Document Type: Article

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