A pathway for the transmission of allosteric signals in the ribosome through a network of RNA tertiary interactions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 355, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1014-1025

  Chan, Yuen Ling ^a   Dresios, John ^a,b   Wool, Ira G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ribosome signal transmission and conformational changes; rRNA tertiary interactions

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOTIDE; RICIN; RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL GROWTH; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE MUTATION; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 29444436631     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.11.037     Document Type: Article

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