Dynamics of translation on the ribosome: Molecular mechanics of translocation

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 317-333

  Rodnina, Marina V ^a   Savelsbergh, Andreas ^a   Wintermeyer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elongation factor; GTPase; Motor protein; Protein synthesis; rRNA; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT;

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0032931788     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(99)00010-8     Document Type: Review

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