Peptide bond formation does not involve acid-base catalysis by ribosomal residues

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 423-428

  Bieling, Peter ^a,b   Beringer, Malte ^a   Adio, Sarah ^a,c   Rodnina, Marina V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; BASE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FORMYLMETHIONINE; HYDROXYPUROMYCIN; PEPTIDE; PUROMYCIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

ACIDS; ALKALIES; CATALYSIS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFER RNA AMINOACYLATION;

EID: 33745071762     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1091     Document Type: Article

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