Ribosome structure and the mechanism of translation

Cell

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 557-572

  Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

CODON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 0037154986     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00619-0     Document Type: Review

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