The transition state for peptide bond formation reveals the ribosome as a water trap

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

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1888-1893

  Wallin, Göran ^a   Åqvist, Johan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Density functional theory; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PEPTIDE BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE; QUANTUM THEORY; RIBOSOMES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 76649094618     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914192107     Document Type: Article

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