Animation of the dynamical events of the elongation cycle based on cryoelectron microscopy of functional complexes of the ribosome

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-18

  Frank, Joachim ^a   Heagle, Amy B ^a   Agrawal, Rajendra K ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongation cycle; Protein biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

EID: 0033397413     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4138     Document Type: Article

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