Cryoelectron microscopy structures of the ribosome complex in intermediate states during tRNA translocation

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

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4817-4821

  Fu, Jie ^a   Munro, James B ^b   Blanchard, Scott C ^b   Frank, Joachim ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUTATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79953216748     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101503108     Document Type: Article

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