Correlation of the expansion segments in mammalian rRNA with the fine structure of the 80 S ribosome; A cryoelectron microscopic reconstruction of the rabbit reticulocyte ribosome at 21 Å resolution

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 403-421

  Dube, Prakash ^a   Bacher, Gerald ^b   Stark, Holger ^c   Mueller, Florian ^d   Zemlin, Friedrich ^a   Van Heel, Marin ^c   Brimacombe, Richard ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer modelling; Cryoelectron microscopy; Eukaroytic expansion segments; rRNA secondary structure; Structure fitting

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETICULOCYTE; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032486089     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1804     Document Type: Article

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