Tuning the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA to elongation factor Tu for optimal decoding

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

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5215-5220

  Schrader, Jared M ^a   Chapman, Stephen J ^a   Uhlenbeck, Olke C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU;

BINDING AFFINITY; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79955113244     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102128108     Document Type: Article

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