The ribosome triggers the stringent response by RelA via a highly distorted tRNA

EMBO Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 811-816

  Agirrezabala, Xabier ^a   Fernández, Israel S ^b   Kelley, Ann C ^b   Cartón, David Gil ^a   Ramakrishnan, Venki ^b   Valle, Mikel ^a,c  

^a CIC BIOGUNE   (Spain)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

A T tRNA; Cryo EM; RelA; Ribosome; Starvation signalling

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; STRINGENT FACTOR RELA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE; KWASHIORKOR; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; STARVATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR DOCKING SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

EID: 84883487098     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2013.106     Document Type: Article

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