Characterization of in vitro and in vivo mutations in non-conserved nucleotides in the ribosomal RNA recognition domain for the ribotoxins ricin and sarcin and the translation elongation factors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 567-580

  Macbeth, Mark R ^a   Wool, Ira G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elongation factors; Ribosomes; Ricin; rRNA recognition; Sarcin

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RICIN; RNA 23S; RNA 28S; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BOND; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033555251     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2337     Document Type: Article

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