New Structural Insights into Translational Miscoding

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 798-814

  Rozov, Alexey ^a   Demeshkina, Natalia ^a,c   Westhof, Eric ^b   Yusupov, Marat ^a   Yusupova, Gulnara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

crystallography; decoding; ribosome; structure; translation

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA 70S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTICODON; CODON; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; BINDING SITE; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; RIBOSOME;

ANTICODON; CODON; GENETIC CODE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC;

EID: 84978513185     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.06.001     Document Type: Review

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