Highly Conserved Region 1816-1831 of the 18S Ribosomal RNA Is Close to the First Nucleotide of the A-Site Codon in Elongation and Termination of Translation

Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 415-420

  Bulygin, K N ^a   Meshchaninova, M I ^a   Ven'yaminova, A G ^a   Graifer, D M ^a   Frolova, L Yu ^b   Karpova, G G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

80S ribosome; Elongation; Eukaryotes; mRNA analog; Photocrosslinking; Ribosomal RNA; Termination; Translation

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0038463711     PISSN: 00268933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024291428015     Document Type: Article

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