The busiest of all ribosomal assistants: Elongation factor Tu

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2642-2651

  Kavaliauskas, Darius ^a   Nissen, Poul ^a   Knudsen, Charlotte R ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC INFORMATION; TRANSLATION FACTORS;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ELONGATION; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RECYCLING;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AEROPYRUM PERNIX; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; THERMUS AQUATICUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 84859409992     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi300077s     Document Type: Article

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