Visualization of a large conformation change of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for tryptophan or treated with kirromycin

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 238, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 335-344

  Zhang, Kan ^a   Pettersson Landén, Lena ^a   Fredriksson, Mats G ^a   Öfverstedt, Lars Göran ^b   Skoglund, Ulf ^b   Isaksson, Leif A ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA starvation; Electron tomography; Escherichia coli; Ribosome structure

Indexed keywords

MOCIMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; STARVATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032004731     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3839     Document Type: Article

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