Evolutionary optimization of speed and accuracy of decoding on the ribosome

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1580, 2011, Pages 2979-2986

  Wohlgemuth, Ingo ^a   Pohl, Corinna ^a   Mittelstaet, Joerg ^a   Konevega, Andrey L ^a   Rodnina, Marina V ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Error frequency; mRNA decoding; Protein synthesis; Ribosome; Translation fidelity; tRNA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CELL ORGANELLE; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052945496     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0138     Document Type: Review

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