Structural basis for translation termination on the 70S ribosome

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7206, 2008, Pages 852-857

  Laurberg, Martin ^a   Asahara, Haruichi ^a   Korostelev, Andrei ^a   Zhu, Jianyu ^a   Trakhanov, Sergei ^a   Noller, Harry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

CODON, TERMINATOR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, TRANSFER; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 49649099901     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07115     Document Type: Article

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