Publication Date:
1996-02-16
Description:
Transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules play a crucial role in protein biosynthesis in all organisms. Their interactions with ribosomes mediate the translation of genetic messages into polypeptides. Three tRNAs bound to the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome were visualized directly with cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction. The detailed arrangement of A- and P-site tRNAs inferred from this study allows localization of the sites for anticodon interaction and peptide bond formation on the ribosome.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Agrawal, R K -- Penczek, P -- Grassucci, R A -- Li, Y -- Leith, A -- Nierhaus, K H -- Frank, J -- 1R01 GM29169/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P41 RR01219/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Feb 16;271(5251):1000-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany 12201-0509, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8584922" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anticodon
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Binding Sites
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Codon
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Escherichia coli/*metabolism
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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Microscopy, Electron
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Models, Molecular
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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RNA, Bacterial/chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Transfer/*chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/*chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Transfer, Phe/*chemistry/metabolism
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Ribosomes/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
