Probing ribosome structure by europium-induced RNA cleavage

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-251

  Dorner, Silke ^a   Barta, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antibiotic binding sites; Chloramphenicol; Erythromycin; Metal ion binding sites; Peptidyl transferase; rRNA structure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; EUROPIUM; METAL ION; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033022192     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.032     Document Type: Article

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