The crystal structure of human eukaryotic release factor eRF1 - Mechanism of stop codon recognition and peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis

Cell

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 311-321

  Song, Haiwei ^a,b   Mugnier, Pierre ^c   Das, Amit K ^b   Webb, Helen M ^c   Evans, David R ^d   Tuite, Mick F ^c   Hemmings, Brian A ^d   Barford, David ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 0034603210     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80667-4     Document Type: Article

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