Major rearrangements in the 70S ribosomal 3D structure caused by a conformational switch in 16S ribosomal RNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 6501-6507

  Gabashvili, Irene S ^a   Agrawal, Rajendra K ^a   Grassucci, Robert ^a,b   Squires, Catherine L ^c   Dahlberg, Albert E ^d   Frank, Joachim ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale conformational rearrangements; mRNA channel; mRNA decoding; Ribosome; rRNA switch

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0033571249     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.22.6501     Document Type: Article

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