Elucidating the medium-resolution structure of ribosomal particles: An interplay between electron cryo-microscopy and X-ray crystallography

Structure

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 931-941

  Harms, Jörg ^a   Tocilj, Ante ^b   Levin, Inna ^b   Agmon, Ilana ^b   Stark, Holger ^c,e   Kölln, Ingo ^a   Van Heel, Marin ^c   Cuff, Marianne ^c   Schlünzen, Frank ^a   Bashan, Anat ^b   Franceschi, Francois ^d   Yonath, Ada ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron cryo microscopy; MIR phasing; MR searches; Ribosomes

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC CODE; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033566668     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(99)80120-8     Document Type: Article

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