Initiation factors of protein biosynthesis in bacteria and their structural relationship to elongation and termination factors

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 409-417

  Brock, Stephan ^a   Szkaradkiewicz, Karol ^a   Sprinzl, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 3; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-1; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-1; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031854151     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00893.x     Document Type: Review

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