On peptide bond formation, translocation, nascent protein progression and the regulatory properties of ribosomes: Delivered on 20 October 2002 at the 28th FEBS meeting in Istanbul

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 270, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2543-2556

  Agmon, Ilana ^a   Auerbach, Tamar ^a,b   Baram, David ^a   Bartels, Heike ^c   Bashan, Anat ^a   Berisio, Rita ^c,e   Fucini, Paola ^d   Hansen, Harly A S ^c   Harms, Joerg ^c   Kessler, Maggie ^a   Peretz, Moshe ^a   Schluenzen, Frank ^c   Yonath, Ada ^a,c   Zarivach, Raz ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK UNIT FOR STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elongation arrest; Peptide bond formation; Ribosomes; Translocation; Tunnel gating

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; RNA; SOLVENT; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE INTERACTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSPORT; ROTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DEINOCOCCUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

DEINOCOCCUS; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS;

EID: 0037636310     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03634.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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