A two-step chemical mechanism for ribosome-catalysed peptide bond formation

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7359, 2011, Pages 236-239

  Hiller, David A ^a   Singh, Vipender ^a,b   Zhong, Minghong ^a,c   Strobel, Scott A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALBANY MOLECULAR RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; LETTER; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOPHILICITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME;

BIOCATALYSIS; BIOGENESIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 80051678327     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10248     Document Type: Letter

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