Bridging the gap between ribosome structure and biochemistry by mechanistic computations

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 815-823

  Åqvist, Johan ^a   Lind, Christoffer ^a   Sund, Johan ^a   Wallin, Göran ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL TRANSPORT; CODON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; PEPTIDES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84870390175     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.07.008     Document Type: Review

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