Modeling a minimal ribosome based on comparative sequence analysis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 321, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 215-234

  Mears, Jason A ^a   Cannone, Jamie J ^b   Stagg, Scott M ^a   Gutell, Robin R ^b   Agrawal, Rajendra K ^c   Harvey, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Evolution; Phylogenetics; Ribosome; rRNA

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHLOROPLAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; IMPERIUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ARCHAEA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0036382768     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00568-5     Document Type: Article

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