Ribosome structure and dynamics during translocation and termination

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 227-244

  Dunkle, Jack A ^a   Cate, Jamie H D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Proofreading; Protein synthesis; Single molecule spectroscopy; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RELEASE FACTOR 1 PROTEIN; RELEASE FACTOR 2 PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; LARGE RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SMALL RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CODON, TERMINATOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASE-LINKED ELONGATION FACTORS; HUMANS; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77952928661     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.37.032807.125954     Document Type: Review

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