A detailed view of a ribosomal active site: The structure of the L11- RNA complex

Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 491-502

  Wimberly, Brian T ^a   Guymon, Rebecca ^a   McCutcheon, John P ^a   White, Stephen W ^b   Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0033553439     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80759-X     Document Type: Article

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