Structure of the Escherichia coli ribosomal termination complex with release factor 2

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6918, 2003, Pages 90-94

  Klaholz, Bruno P ^a   Pape, Tillmann ^a   Zavialov, Andrey V ^b   Myasnikov, Alexander G ^a   Orlova, Elena V ^a,d   Vestergaard, Bente ^c   Ehrenberg, Måns ^b   Van Heel, Marin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLYSIS; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

RIBOSOMAL TERMINATIONS;

RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION PROTEIN RELEASE FACTOR 2; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEDICINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BINDING SITES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037413610     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01225     Document Type: Article

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