New insights into signal recognition and elongation arrest activities of the signal recognition particle

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-145

  Bui, Nazarena ^a   Strub, Katharina ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution; RNA protein; Signal sequence; Translation; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE;

CELL SPECIFICITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033020927     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bc.1999.021     Document Type: Review

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