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1n33
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234 a.a. *
206 a.a. *
208 a.a. *
150 a.a. *
101 a.a. *
155 a.a. *
138 a.a. *
127 a.a. *
98 a.a. *
119 a.a. *
124 a.a. *
118 a.a. *
60 a.a. *
88 a.a. *
83 a.a. *
104 a.a. *
73 a.a. *
80 a.a. *
99 a.a. *
24 a.a. *
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Metal ions
_MG ×106
_ZN ×2

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PDB id: 1n33
Name: Ribosome
Title: Structure of the thermus thermophilus 30s ribosomal subunit bound to codon and near-cognate transfer RNA anticodon stem-loop mismatched at the second codon position at the a site with paromomycin

Structure:
16s ribosomal RNA. Chain: a. Anticodon stem-loop of ser transfer RNA. Chain: y. A-site messenger RNA fragment. Chain: z. 30s ribosomal protein s2. Chain: b. 30s ribosomal protein s3.

Source:
Thermus thermophilus. Organism_taxid: 274. Organism_taxid: 274

Biological unit:
23mer (from PQS)

UniProt:
Chain B: P80371 (RS2_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 256 a.a.
Struc: 234 a.a.

Chain C: P80372 (RS3_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 239 a.a.
Struc: 206 a.a.

Chain D: P80373 (RS4_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 209 a.a.
Struc: 208 a.a.

Chain E: Q5SHQ5 (RS5_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 162 a.a.
Struc: 150 a.a.

Chain F: Q5SLP8 (RS6_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 101 a.a.
Struc: 101 a.a.

Chain G: P17291 (RS7_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 156 a.a.
Struc: 155 a.a.

Chain H: Q5SHQ2 (RS8_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 138 a.a.
Struc: 138 a.a.

Chain I: P80374 (RS9_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 128 a.a.
Struc: 127 a.a.*

Chain J: Q5SHN7 (RS10_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 105 a.a.
Struc: 98 a.a.

Chain K: P80376 (RS11_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 129 a.a.
Struc: 119 a.a.

Chain L: Q5SHN3 (RS12_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 132 a.a.
Struc: 124 a.a.

Chain M: P80377 (RS13_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 126 a.a.
Struc: 118 a.a.

Chain N: Q5SHQ1 (RS14Z_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 61 a.a.
Struc: 60 a.a.

Chain O: Q5SJ76 (RS15_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 89 a.a.
Struc: 88 a.a.

Chain P: Q5SJH3 (RS16_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 88 a.a.
Struc: 83 a.a.

Chain Q: Q5SHP7 (RS17_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 105 a.a.
Struc: 104 a.a.*

Chain R: Q5SLQ0 (RS18_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 88 a.a.
Struc: 73 a.a.*

Chain S: Q5SHP2 (RS19_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 93 a.a.
Struc: 80 a.a.

Chain T: P80380 (RS20_THET8)
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
Seq: 106 a.a.
Struc: 99 a.a.

Chain V: Q5SIH3 (RSHX_THET8)
Pfam  
Seq: 27 a.a.
Struc: 24 a.a.
Key:    PfamA domain  PfamB domain
 Secondary structure  CATH domain
* PDB and UniProt seqs differ at 3 residue positions (black crosses)

Resolution:
3.35Å

R-factor:
0.225

R-free:
0.284

Authors:
J.M.Ogle,F.V.Murphy Iv,M.J.Tarry,V.Ramakrishnan

Key ref:
J.M.Ogle et al. (2002). Selection of tRNA by the ribosome requires a transition from an open to a closed form.. Cell, 111, 721-732. [PubMed id: 12464183] [DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)01086-3]

Date:
25-Oct-02

Release date:
29-Nov-02

Related entries:
1j5e
native structure of the 30s particle
1fjg
structure of the 30s particle in complex with the
antibiotics streptomycin, spectinomycin and paromomycin
1ibl
structure of the 30s particle in complex with messenger RNA
fragment and cognate transfer RNA anticodon stem-loop bound
to the a site and with the antibiotic paromomycin
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    Key reference    
 
 
DOI no: 10.1016/S0092-8674(02)01086-3 Cell 111:721-732 (2002)
PubMed id: 12464183  
 
 
Selection of tRNA by the ribosome requires a transition from an open to a closed form.
J.M.Ogle, F.V.Murphy, M.J.Tarry, V.Ramakrishnan.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
A structural and mechanistic explanation for the selection of tRNAs by the ribosome has been elusive. Here, we report crystal structures of the 30S ribosomal subunit with codon and near-cognate tRNA anticodon stem loops bound at the decoding center and compare affinities of equivalent complexes in solution. In ribosomal interactions with near-cognate tRNA, deviation from Watson-Crick geometry results in uncompensated desolvation of hydrogen-bonding partners at the codon-anticodon minor groove. As a result, the transition to a closed form of the 30S induced by cognate tRNA is unfavorable for near-cognate tRNA unless paromomycin induces part of the rearrangement. We conclude that stabilization of a closed 30S conformation is required for tRNA selection, and thereby structurally rationalize much previous data on translational fidelity.
 
  Selected figure(s)  
 
Figure 3.
Figure 3. Discrimination at the First Two Codon Positions(A) Refined 2mF[o]-DF[c] electron density (contoured at 1.2 σ) from the ASL^Leu2/paromomycin structure for the anticodon-codon G:U mismatch at the first position and A1493.(B) Superposition of the ASL^Leu2/paromomycin structure (dark red), on the corresponding cognate interaction (gray, A:U anticodon-codon base pair; Ogle et al., 2001), in which dashed lines connect hydrogen bond donors and acceptors and the line of larger, transparent red spheres highlights the uncompensated loss of a hydrogen bond caused by separation of A1493 and the codon. The last two images show van der Waals surfaces for the near-cognate and cognate structures, respectively.(C) Electron density from the ASL^Ser/paromomycin structure around the second codon position, showing A1492 and G530. The appropriate position of a guanine base to pair with the refined position of the codon U is shown in light gray; the expected position of a uridine base forming a typical base pair with the refined position of anticodon G is shown in dark gray.(D) G530 at the second codon position, showing mF[o]-DF[c] difference electron density (contoured at 3 σ) obtained when the base is omitted from refinement. Superpositions are based upon the 5′-domain of the 16S RNA. In the native structure, the density clearly represents the syn conformation (cyan, Wimberly et al., 2000, G530 in the anti conformation from the ASL^Ser/paromomycin structure is superimposed, blue). In the ASL^Ser/paromomycin structure (blue), density is weaker, arising from partial disorder due to the G:U mismatch at the second codon position (the native syn structure is superimposed, in cyan). In the ASL^Leu2/paromomycin structure (red), the density unambiguously represents the anti conformation.
Figure 5.
Figure 5. Details of Movements at the S4-S5 Interface and the Region around S12E. coli numbering is used for RNA residues and in parentheses for protein residues.(A) Proteins S4 and S5, on the back of the subunit body/shoulder region, move apart due to 30S closure. Based on rigid phosphorus atoms in the 16S RNA identified using ESCET, the ASL^Leu2/paromomycin structure (red) is superimposed on the native structure (gray), in which known mutations causing the error-prone ram phenotype are marked green.(B) The same structure comparison as in (A), showing the formation of contacts between protein S12, and helices 44 and 27 of 16S RNA due the closing rearrangement in the body. Mutations that cause hyperaccurate translation or modulate streptomycin sensitivity are marked green. Streptomycin (from the superimposed 30S complex, pdb-code 1FJG, Carter et al., 2000) is shown for reference.Please see Supplemental Data for animation of these changes (available at http://www.cell.com/cgi/content/full/111/5/721/DC1).
 
  The above figures are reprinted by permission from Cell Press: Cell (2002, 111, 721-732) copyright 2002.  
  Figures were selected by the author.  

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PDB code: 2b3j
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PDB code: 2fqn
16596680 J.Kondo, B.François, A.Urzhumtsev, and E.Westhof (2006).
Crystal structure of the Homo sapiens cytoplasmic ribosomal decoding site complexed with apramycin.
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PDB code: 2g5k
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Structure of the 70S ribosome complexed with mRNA and tRNA.
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PDB codes: 2j00 2j01 2j02 2j03
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Molecular dynamics simulations of human tRNA Lys,3 UUU: the role of modified bases in mRNA recognition.
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A novel single amino acid change in small subunit ribosomal protein S5 has profound effects on translational fidelity.
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An arc of unpaired "hinge bases" facilitates information exchange among functional centers of the ribosome.
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Binding of neomycin-class aminoglycoside antibiotics to mutant ribosomes with alterations in the A site of 16S rRNA.
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17038497 V.Berk, W.Zhang, R.D.Pai, J.H.Cate, and J.H.Cate (2006).
Structural basis for mRNA and tRNA positioning on the ribosome.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103, 15830-15834.
PDB codes: 2i2p 2i2t 2i2u 2i2v
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Functional conformations of the L11-ribosomal RNA complex revealed by correlative analysis of cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations.
  RNA, 12, 1240-1253.
PDB code: 2gkz
16214802 B.François, R.J.Russell, J.B.Murray, F.Aboul-ela, B.Masquida, Q.Vicens, and E.Westhof (2005).
Crystal structures of complexes between aminoglycosides and decoding A site oligonucleotides: role of the number of rings and positive charges in the specific binding leading to miscoding.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 33, 5677-5690.
PDB codes: 2esi 2esj 2et3 2et4 2et5 2et8
15755955 B.S.Laursen, H.P.Sørensen, K.K.Mortensen, and H.U.Sperling-Petersen (2005).
Initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria.
  Microbiol Mol Biol Rev, 69, 101-123.  
16272117 B.S.Schuwirth, M.A.Borovinskaya, C.W.Hau, W.Zhang, A.Vila-Sanjurjo, J.M.Holton, and J.H.Cate (2005).
Structures of the bacterial ribosome at 3.5 A resolution.
  Science, 310, 827-834.
PDB codes: 2avy 2aw4 2aw7 2awb
16314459 C.L.Shenvi, K.C.Dong, E.M.Friedman, J.A.Hanson, and J.H.Cate (2005).
Accessibility of 18S rRNA in human 40S subunits and 80S ribosomes at physiological magnesium ion concentrations--implications for the study of ribosome dynamics.
  RNA, 11, 1898-1908.  
15853795 D.E.Brodersen, and P.Nissen (2005).
The social life of ribosomal proteins.
  FEBS J, 272, 2098-2108.  
16257826 D.N.Wilson, and K.H.Nierhaus (2005).
Ribosomal proteins in the spotlight.
  Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol, 40, 243-267.  
15568198 D.Vourloumis, G.C.Winters, K.B.Simonsen, M.Takahashi, B.K.Ayida, S.Shandrick, Q.Zhao, Q.Han, and T.Hermann (2005).
Aminoglycoside-hybrid ligands targeting the ribosomal decoding site.
  Chembiochem, 6, 58-65.  
15872184 F.Bélanger, G.Théberge-Julien, P.R.Cunningham, and L.Brakier-Gingras (2005).
A functional relationship between helix 1 and the 900 tetraloop of 16S ribosomal RNA within the bacterial ribosome.
  RNA, 11, 906-913.  
15951374 F.Vanzi, Y.Takagi, H.Shuman, B.S.Cooperman, and Y.E.Goldman (2005).
Mechanical studies of single ribosome/mRNA complexes.
  Biophys J, 89, 1909-1919.  
16141058 H.F.Noller (2005).
RNA structure: reading the ribosome.
  Science, 309, 1508-1514.  
16059752 H.L.Wu, S.Bagby, and J.M.van den Elsen (2005).
Evolution of the genetic triplet code via two types of doublet codons.
  J Mol Evol, 61, 54-64.  
15866943 J.F.Carr, S.T.Gregory, and A.E.Dahlberg (2005).
Severity of the streptomycin resistance and streptomycin dependence phenotypes of ribosomal protein S12 of Thermus thermophilus depends on the identity of highly conserved amino acid residues.
  J Bacteriol, 187, 3548-3550.  
15952884 J.M.Ogle, and V.Ramakrishnan (2005).
Structural insights into translational fidelity.
  Annu Rev Biochem, 74, 129-177.  
15951386 J.Trylska, V.Tozzini, and J.A.McCammon (2005).
Exploring global motions and correlations in the ribosome.
  Biophys J, 89, 1455-1463.  
16249344 K.Y.Sanbonmatsu, S.Joseph, and C.S.Tung (2005).
Simulating movement of tRNA into the ribosome during decoding.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102, 15854-15859.  
15905403 L.Cochella, and R.Green (2005).
An active role for tRNA in decoding beyond codon:anticodon pairing.
  Science, 308, 1178-1180.  
15802605 L.Jenner, P.Romby, B.Rees, C.Schulze-Briese, M.Springer, C.Ehresmann, B.Ehresmann, D.Moras, G.Yusupova, and M.Yusupov (2005).
Translational operator of mRNA on the ribosome: how repressor proteins exclude ribosome binding.
  Science, 308, 120-123.
PDB codes: 1yl3 1yl4
15647501 M.Dorywalska, S.C.Blanchard, R.L.Gonzalez, H.D.Kim, S.Chu, and J.D.Puglisi (2005).
Site-specific labeling of the ribosome for single-molecule spectroscopy.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 33, 182-189.  
15840820 M.Guillier, F.Allemand, M.Graffe, S.Raibaud, F.Dardel, M.Springer, and C.Chiaruttini (2005).
The N-terminal extension of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L20 is important for ribosome assembly, but dispensable for translational feedback control.
  RNA, 11, 728-738.  
16244134 M.N.Lambert, J.A.Hoerter, M.J.Pereira, and N.G.Walter (2005).
Solution probing of metal ion binding by helix 27 from Escherichia coli 16S rRNA.
  RNA, 11, 1688-1700.  
16116437 M.Olejniczak, T.Dale, R.P.Fahlman, and O.C.Uhlenbeck (2005).
Idiosyncratic tuning of tRNAs to achieve uniform ribosome binding.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 12, 788-793.  
16177132 N.M.Abdi, and K.Fredrick (2005).
Contribution of 16S rRNA nucleotides forming the 30S subunit A and P sites to translation in Escherichia coli.
  RNA, 11, 1624-1632.  
15849690 Q.Han, Q.Zhao, S.Fish, K.B.Simonsen, D.Vourloumis, J.M.Froelich, D.Wall, and T.Hermann (2005).
Molecular recognition by glycoside pseudo base pairs and triples in an apramycin-RNA complex.
  Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 44, 2694-2700.
PDB code: 1yrj
15743969 S.T.Gregory, J.F.Carr, and A.E.Dahlberg (2005).
A mutation in the decoding center of Thermus thermophilus 16S rRNA suggests a novel mechanism of streptomycin resistance.
  J Bacteriol, 187, 2200-2202.  
16276501 S.Vauléon, S.A.Ivanov, S.Gwiazda, and S.Müller (2005).
Site-specific fluorescent and affinity labelling of RNA by using a small engineered twin ribozyme.
  Chembiochem, 6, 2158-2162.  
15665870 S.Yoshizawa, L.Rasubala, T.Ose, D.Kohda, D.Fourmy, and K.Maenaka (2005).
Structural basis for mRNA recognition by elongation factor SelB.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 12, 198-203.
PDB code: 1wsu
16244128 T.Dale, and O.C.Uhlenbeck (2005).
Binding of misacylated tRNAs to the ribosomal A site.
  RNA, 11, 1610-1615.  
15905389 T.Daviter, F.V.Murphy, and V.Ramakrishnan (2005).
Molecular biology. A renewed focus on transfer RNA.
  Science, 308, 1123-1124.  
14707145 A.J.Herr, N.M.Wills, C.C.Nelson, R.F.Gesteland, and J.F.Atkins (2004).
Factors that influence selection of coding resumption sites in translational bypassing: minimal conventional peptidyl-tRNA:mRNA pairing can suffice.
  J Biol Chem, 279, 11081-11087.  
15593140 B.François, J.Szychowski, S.S.Adhikari, K.Pachamuthu, E.E.Swayze, R.H.Griffey, M.T.Migawa, E.Westhof, and S.Hanessian (2004).
Antibacterial aminoglycosides with a modified mode of binding to the ribosomal-RNA decoding site.
  Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 43, 6735-6738.
PDB codes: 2be0 2bee
14976550 C.M.Spahn, M.G.Gomez-Lorenzo, R.A.Grassucci, R.Jørgensen, G.R.Andersen, R.Beckmann, P.A.Penczek, J.P.Ballesta, and J.Frank (2004).
Domain movements of elongation factor eEF2 and the eukaryotic 80S ribosome facilitate tRNA translocation.
  EMBO J, 23, 1008-1019.
PDB codes: 1s1h 1s1i
14681582 D.Rodriguez-Correa, and A.E.Dahlberg (2004).
Genetic evidence against the 16S ribosomal RNA helix 27 conformational switch model.
  RNA, 10, 28-33.  
15558050 F.V.Murphy, and V.Ramakrishnan (2004).
Structure of a purine-purine wobble base pair in the decoding center of the ribosome.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 1251-1252.
PDB codes: 1xnq 1xnr
15558052 F.V.Murphy, V.Ramakrishnan, A.Malkiewicz, and P.F.Agris (2004).
The role of modifications in codon discrimination by tRNA(Lys)UUU.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 1186-1191.
PDB codes: 1xmo 1xmq
15466596 H.Himeno, K.Hanawa-Suetsugu, T.Kimura, K.Takagi, W.Sugiyama, S.Shirata, T.Mikami, F.Odagiri, Y.Osanai, D.Watanabe, S.Goto, L.Kalachnyuk, C.Ushida, and A.Muto (2004).
A novel GTPase activated by the small subunit of ribosome.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 5303-5309.  
15274086 J.Trylska, R.Konecny, F.Tama, C.L.Brooks, and J.A.McCammon (2004).
Ribosome motions modulate electrostatic properties.
  Biopolymers, 74, 423-431.  
15004548 K.B.Gromadski, and M.V.Rodnina (2004).
Streptomycin interferes with conformational coupling between codon recognition and GTPase activation on the ribosome.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 316-322.  
15496521 K.Karbstein, K.H.Tang, and D.Herschlag (2004).
A base triple in the Tetrahymena group I core affects the reaction equilibrium via a threshold effect.
  RNA, 10, 1730-1739.  
15189156 L.D.Kapp, and J.R.Lorsch (2004).
The molecular mechanics of eukaryotic translation.
  Annu Rev Biochem, 73, 657-704.  
14983168 L.D.Sherlin, and O.C.Uhlenbeck (2004).
Hasty decisions on the ribosome.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 206-208.  
15608296 L.M.Wadley, and A.M.Pyle (2004).
The identification of novel RNA structural motifs using COMPADRES: an automated approach to structural discovery.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 6650-6659.  
15247429 M.Léger, S.Sidani, and L.Brakier-Gingras (2004).
A reassessment of the response of the bacterial ribosome to the frameshift stimulatory signal of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
  RNA, 10, 1225-1235.  
15456889 M.Rakwalska, and S.Rospert (2004).
The ribosome-bound chaperones RAC and Ssb1/2p are required for accurate translation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  Mol Cell Biol, 24, 9186-9197.  
15009191 N.Chumpolkulwong, C.Hori-Takemoto, T.Hosaka, T.Inaoka, T.Kigawa, M.Shirouzu, K.Ochi, and S.Yokoyama (2004).
Effects of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein S12 mutations on cell-free protein synthesis.
  Eur J Biochem, 271, 1127-1134.  
14715921 P.F.Agris (2004).
Decoding the genome: a modified view.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 223-238.  
15121895 P.S.Klosterman, D.K.Hendrix, M.Tamura, S.R.Holbrook, and S.E.Brenner (2004).
Three-dimensional motifs from the SCOR, structural classification of RNA database: extruded strands, base triples, tetraloops and U-turns.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 2342-2352.  
15448679 S.C.Blanchard, R.L.Gonzalez, H.D.Kim, S.Chu, and J.D.Puglisi (2004).
tRNA selection and kinetic proofreading in translation.
  Nat Struct Mol Biol, 11, 1008-1014.  
15295039 T.Konno, T.Takahashi, D.Kurita, A.Muto, and H.Himeno (2004).
A minimum structure of aminoglycosides that causes an initiation shift of trans-translation.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 4119-4126.  
15477592 Y.Kirino, T.Yasukawa, S.Ohta, S.Akira, K.Ishihara, K.Watanabe, and T.Suzuki (2004).
Codon-specific translational defect caused by a wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNA from a human mitochondrial disease.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 101, 15070-15075.  
15337844 Z.Druzina, and B.S.Cooperman (2004).
Photolabile anticodon stem-loop analogs of tRNAPhe as probes of ribosomal structure and structural fluctuation at the decoding center.
  RNA, 10, 1550-1562.  
12810911 A.Frankel, and R.W.Roberts (2003).
In vitro selection for sense codon suppression.
  RNA, 9, 780-786.  
12853578 A.Vila-Sanjurjo, W.K.Ridgeway, V.Seymaner, W.Zhang, S.Santoso, K.Yu, and J.H.Cate (2003).
X-ray crystal structures of the WT and a hyper-accurate ribosome from Escherichia coli.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100, 8682-8687.
PDB codes: 1pns 1pnu 1pnx 1pny
12913115 C.Francklyn (2003).
tRNA synthetase paralogs: evolutionary links in the transition from tRNA-dependent amino acid biosynthesis to de novo biosynthesis.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100, 9650-9652.  
12937172 F.Robert, and L.Brakier-Gingras (2003).
A functional interaction between ribosomal proteins S7 and S11 within the bacterial ribosome.
  J Biol Chem, 278, 44913-44920.  
12824344 H.Yang, F.Jossinet, N.Leontis, L.Chen, J.Westbrook, H.Berman, and E.Westhof (2003).
Tools for the automatic identification and classification of RNA base pairs.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 31, 3450-3460.  
14561879 I.S.Gabashvili, M.Whirl-Carrillo, M.Bada, D.R.Banatao, and R.B.Altman (2003).
Ribosomal dynamics inferred from variations in experimental measurements.
  RNA, 9, 1301-1307.  
14661949 J.W.Noah, T.G.Shapkina, K.Nanda, W.Huggins, and P.Wollenzien (2003).
Conformational change in the 16S rRNA in the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome induced by P/P- and P/E-site tRNAPhe binding.
  Biochemistry, 42, 14386-14396.  
14602896 K.Takai, and S.Yokoyama (2003).
Roles of 5-substituents of tRNA wobble uridines in the recognition of purine-ending codons.
  Nucleic Acids Res, 31, 6383-6391.  
12970189 P.Licznar, N.Mejlhede, M.F.Prère, N.Wills, R.F.Gesteland, J.F.Atkins, and O.Fayet (2003).
Programmed translational -1 frameshifting on hexanucleotide motifs and the wobble properties of tRNAs.
  EMBO J, 22, 4770-4778.  
12925992 Q.Vicens, and E.Westhof (2003).
Molecular recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by ribosomal RNA and resistance enzymes: an analysis of x-ray crystal structures.
  Biopolymers, 70, 42-57.  
14638464 S.R.Connell, D.M.Tracz, K.H.Nierhaus, and D.E.Taylor (2003).
Ribosomal protection proteins and their mechanism of tetracycline resistance.
  Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 47, 3675-3681.  
14561884 T.M.Schmeing, P.B.Moore, and T.A.Steitz (2003).
Structures of deacylated tRNA mimics bound to the E site of the large ribosomal subunit.
  RNA, 9, 1345-1352.
PDB codes: 1qvf 1qvg
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