The Identification of the Determinants of the Cyclic, Sequential Binding of Elongation Factors Tu and G to the Ribosome

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 386, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 802-813

  Yu, Huijun ^a   Chan, Yuen Ling ^a   Wool, Ira G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

cyclic binding of elongation factors Tu and G; ribosomes; rRNA conformational changes; sarcin ricin domain of 23S rRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

PHYTOLACCACEAE;

EID: 59649126890     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.071     Document Type: Article

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