Incorporation of aminoacyl-tRNA into the ribosome as seen by cryo-electron microscopy

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 899-906

  Valle, Mikel ^a,g   Zavialov, Andrey ^b   Li, Wen ^c   Stagg, Scott M ^d   Sengupta, Jayati ^c   Nielsen, Rikke C ^e   Nissen, Poul ^e   Harvey, Stephen C ^d   Ehrenberg, Måns ^b   Frank, Joachim ^a,f  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CODON; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0242407184     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1003     Document Type: Article

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