Structural basis for protein synthesis: Snapshots of the ribosome in motion

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 743-749

  Noeske, Jonas ^a   Cate, Jamie HD ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; BACTERIAL CELL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

MOVEMENT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84870390626     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.07.011     Document Type: Review

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