Unraveling the dynamics of ribosome translocation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 804-814

  Chen, Jin ^a,b   Tsai, Albert ^a,b   O'Leary, Seán E ^b   Petrov, Alexey ^b   Puglisi, Joseph D ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TRANSPORT; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOVEMENT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 84870388825     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.09.004     Document Type: Review

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