Structure-function insights into prokaryotic and eukaryotic translation initiation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 300-309

  Myasnikov, Alexander G ^a,b,c,d   Simonetti, Angelita ^a,b,c,d   Marzi, Stefano ^a,b,c,d   Klaholz, Bruno P ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 3; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTE; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 66549108297     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.04.010     Document Type: Review

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