Escherichia coli 70 S ribosome at 15 Å resolution by cryo-electron microscopy: Localization of fMet-tRNA(f)(Met) and fitting of L1 protein

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-116

  Malhotra, Arun ^a   Penczek, Pawel ^a,c   Agrawal, Rajendra K ^a   Gabashvili, Irene S ^a   Grassucci, Robert A ^a   Jünemann, Ralf ^b   Burkhardt, Nils ^b   Nierhaus, Knud H ^b   Frank, Joachim ^a,c  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; L1 protein; Polypeptide exit tunnel; Ribosome structure; tRNA P site

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; CODON; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032479177     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1859     Document Type: Article

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