Two proofreading steps amplify the accuracy of genetic code translation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 13744-13749

  Ieong, Ka Weng ^a   Uzun, Ülkü ^a,b   Selmer, Maria ^a   Ehrenberg, Måns ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EF Tu; Error correction; Fidelity; Ribosome; Ternary complex

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; TERNARY COMPLEX FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; GENETIC CODE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; TERNARY COMPLEX FACTORS;

EID: 84999266394     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610917113     Document Type: Article

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