Visualizing the protein synthesis machinery: New focus on the translational GTPase elongation factor Tu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 969-970

  Rodnina, Marina V ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROLYSIS KINETICS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 59049095244     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812576106     Document Type: Note

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