The ribosome: Some hard facts about its structure and hot air about its evolution

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-33

  Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; ENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; AIR; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; STOP CODON; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA;

EID: 77957730420     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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