Structural basis of the translational elongation cycle

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 203-236

  Voorhees, Rebecca M ^a   Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decoding; Peptidyl transfer; Protein synthesis; Ribosome; Translation; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTON; TRANSFER RNA;

CATALYSIS; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYBRID; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TRANSLATIONAL ELONGATION;

GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASE-LINKED ELONGATION FACTORS; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84878924244     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-113009-092313     Document Type: Review

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