Ribosome-dependent activation of stringent control

Nature

Volumn 534, Issue 7606, 2016, Pages 277-280

  Brown, Alan ^a   Fernández, Israel S ^a,b   Gordiyenko, Yuliya ^a   Ramakrishnan, V ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSFER RNA; ADENOSINE; AMINO ACID; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE;

AMINO ACID; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATION; DRUG TOLERANCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEFICIENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SECOND MESSENGER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADENOSINE; AMINO ACIDS; BINDING SITES; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GTP PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84969814858     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature17675     Document Type: Article

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