Antibiotics acting on the translational machinery

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1391-1393

  Harms, Jörg M ^a   Bartels, Heike ^a   Schlünzen, Frank ^a   Yonath, Ada ^a,b  

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

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CARBOMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN; EDEINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN DERIVATIVE; JOSAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; MOCIMYCIN; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PACTAMYCIN; PAROMOMYCIN; PLEUROMUTILIN; PUROMYCIN; SPARSOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTICODON; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0038745414     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00365     Document Type: Note

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