'View From A Bridge': A New Perspective on Eukaryotic rRNA Base Modification

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 560-575

  Sharma, Sunny ^a   Lafontaine, Denis L J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acetylation; Intersubunit bridge; Methylation; Nucleolus; Protein synthesis; Ribosome assembly; RRNA modification; Translation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; FUNGAL RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; CATALYSIS; CELL BUDDING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA METHYLATION; RNA MODIFICATION; RNA TRANSLATION; YEAST; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84942099152     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.07.008     Document Type: Review

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