Progress toward an understanding of the structure and enzymatic mechanism of the large ribosomal subunit

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2001, Pages 33-42

  Hansen, J L ^c   Schmeing, T M ^c   Klein, D J ^c   Ippolito, J A ^c   Ban, N ^a   Nissen, P ^b   Freeborn, B ^c   Moore, P B ^c   Steitz, T A ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENZYME MECHANISM; HALOARCULA MARISMORTUI; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041401297     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2001.66.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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