Structures of the E. coli translating ribosome with SRP and its receptor and with the translocon

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jomaa, Ahmad ^a   Boehringer, Daniel ^a   Leibundgut, Marc ^a   Ban, Nenad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCKING PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSLOCON; CELL RECEPTOR; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR; SECM PROTEIN, E COLI; SIGNAL PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

1,3 DICHLOROPROPENE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; TRANSLOCATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRUCTURES; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; RIBOSOME; CHEMISTRY; CODON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CODON; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84955516320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10471     Document Type: Article

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