Peptide release on the ribosome: Mechanism and implications for translational control

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2008, Pages 353-373

  Youngman, Elaine M ^a   McDonald, Megan E ^a   Green, Rachel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Induced fit; Protein synthesis; Release factors; Translation termination

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RELEASE FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; CATALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STOP CODON; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MUTATION; PEPTIDE BIOSYNTHESIS; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 53849146066     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.61.080706.093323     Document Type: Review

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