Mechanism of peptide bond formation on the ribosome

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-225

  Rodnina, Marina V ^a   Beringer, Malte ^a   Wintermeyer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYL GROUP; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CATALYSIS; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENTROPY; ENZYME MECHANISM; HUMAN; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PH MEASUREMENT; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

BINDING SITES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 33845604650     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003358350600429X     Document Type: Review

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