Electrons and X-rays gang up on the ribosome

Structure

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Davies, Christopher ^a   White, Stephen W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b St Jude Children's Research Institute   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034654295     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(00)00111-8     Document Type: Review

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