Insights into substrate stabilization from snapshots of the peptidyl transferase center of the intact 70S ribosome

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 528-533

  Voorhees, Rebecca M ^a   Weixlbaumer, Albert ^a   Loakes, David ^a   Kelley, Ann C ^a   Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

50S RIBOSOME; 70S RIBOSOME; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L16; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS L27; RNA 23S;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; RNA, TRANSFER; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 66149157000     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1577     Document Type: Article

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