Insights into the decoding mechanism from recent ribosome structures

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 259-266

  Ogle, James M ^a   Carter, Andrew P ^a   Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PAROMOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ACCURACY; ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; CODON; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0038403669     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(03)00066-5     Document Type: Review

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