Molecular paleontology: A biochemical model of the ancestral ribosome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3373-3385

  Hsiao, Chiaolong ^a   Lenz, Timothy K ^a   Peters, Jessica K ^a   Fang, Po Yu ^a   Schneider, Dana M ^a   Anderson, Eric J ^a   Preeprem, Thanawadee ^a   Bowman, Jessica C ^a   O'Neill, Eric B ^a   Lie, Lively ^a   Athavale, Shreyas S ^a   Gossett, J Jared ^a   Trippe, Catherine ^a   Murray, Jason ^a   Petrov, Anton S ^a   Wartell, Roger M ^a   Harvey, Stephen C ^a   Hud, Nicholas V ^a   Williams, Loren Dean ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84876394657     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt023     Document Type: Article

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