Structure of a bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit at 5.5 Å resolution

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6747, 1999, Pages 833-840

  Clemons Jr , William M ^a   May, Joanna L C ^a   Wimberly, Brian T ^a   McCutcheon, John P ^a   Capel, Malcolm S ^b   Ramakrishnan, V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0344809971     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23631     Document Type: Article

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