The electrostatic character of the ribosomal surface enables extraordinarily rapid target location by ribotoxins

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 436-443

  Korennykh, Alexei V ^a   Piccirilli, Joseph A ^a   Correll, Carl C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SARCIN; RESTRICTOCIN; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOTOXIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RIBOSOMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 33745090478     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1082     Document Type: Article

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