Organization of the mitochondrial translation machinery studied in situ by cryoelectron tomography

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pfeffer, Stefan ^a   Woellhaf, Michael W ^b   Herrmann, Johannes M ^b   Förster, Friedrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MBA1; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 21S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 21S RRNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MBA1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OXA1 PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; INNER MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PURIFICATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOSOL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; RIBOSOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 84931561092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7019     Document Type: Article

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