Molecular dynamics of EF-G during translocation

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1478-1486

  Li, Wen ^a   Trabuco, Leonardo G ^b,c   Schulten, Klaus ^b,d   Frank, Joachim ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Flexible fitting; GTP hydrolysis; Hybrid state; Inter subunit rotation; Ribosome; Translation; TRNA

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 79954596928     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22976     Document Type: Article

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