GTPase activation of elongation factor EF-Tu by the ribosome during decoding

EMBO Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 755-765

  Schuette, Jan Christian ^a   Murphy IV, Frank V ^b   Kelley, Ann C ^b   Weir, John R ^b   Giesebrecht, Jan ^a   Connell, Sean R ^a,e   Loerke, Justus ^c   Mielke, Thorsten ^c   Zhang, Wei ^d   Penczek, Pawel A ^d   Ramakrishnan, V ^b   Spahn, Christian M T ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Elongation factor; GTPase; Ribosome; Translation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PYRIDONES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 62649162306     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: 14602075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.26     Document Type: Article

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