Cryo-Electron Microscopy of the Translational Apparatus: Experimental Evidence for the Paths of mRNA, tRNA, and the Polypeptide Chain
Cryo-Electron Microscopy of the Translational Apparatus: Experimental Evidence for the Paths of mRNA, tRNA, and the Polypeptide Chain
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翻译装置的冷冻电子显微镜:mRNA、tRNA 和多肽链路径的实验证据
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2000
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通讯作者:
R. Agrawal
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作者:
J. Frank;R. Grassucci;A. Heagle;C. Spahn;P. Penczek;R. Agrawal
As a process that brings together, in close proximity, two linear structures of considerable length (mRNA and the nascent polypeptide chain) and large protein factors (EF-G and aminoacyl-tRNA·EF-Tu·GTP ternary complex), protein synthesis poses a logistic problem of traffic control: how to guarantee uninterrupted, high-precision performance without steric interference and entanglement of the various ligands. Since cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) visualization provided the first detailed three-dimensional (3-D) images of the ribosome, much work has gone into the mapping of tRNA and elongation factors bound to the ribosome at various stages of the elongation cycle. A recent study of a 70S ribosome carrying a genetically inserted tRNA-like RNA fragment furnished a higher-resolution (17-A) map of the vacant ribosome, and the use of this new map in the subtraction produced a linear mass distribution covering the platform side segment of the mRNA path, as well as a mass hovering just at the entrance of the 30S subunit channel. tRNA bound to the ribosome has been directly visualized by 3-D cryo-EM in various tRNA-ribosome complexes. Visualization of the ribosome-bound tRNA is still a challenging task because the smallest dimension of the molecule is on the order of the resolution of cryo-EM and the occupancy of some tRNA binding states is intrinsically low.
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作者:
Frank,J;Penczek,P;Agrawal,RK;Grassucci,RA;Heagle,AB
通讯作者:
Heagle,AB
DOI:
10.1016/s0969-2126(98)00069-0
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Structure (London, England : 1993)
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作者:
Yonath,A;Franceschi,F
通讯作者:
Franceschi,F
DOI:
10.1016/s0969-2126(00)88347-1
发表时间:
1999
期刊:
Structure (London, England : 1993)
影响因子:
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作者:
Spahn,CM;Grassucci,RA;Penczek,P;Frank,J
通讯作者:
Frank,J
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Beckmann, R;Bubeck, D;Frank, J
通讯作者:
Frank, J
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.95.11.6134
发表时间:
1998-05-26
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Agrawal, RK;Penczek, P;Frank, J
通讯作者:
Frank, J