Article
The ribosomal exit tunnel functions as a discriminating gate.
Cell - 8 Mar 2002
Nakatogawa Hitoshi, Ito Koreaki
Abstract excerpt
Translation of SecM stalls unless its N-terminal part is "pulled" by the protein export machinery. Here we show that the sequence motif FXXXXWIXXXXGIRAGP that includes a specific arrest point (Pro) causes elongation arrest within the ribosome. Mutations that bypass the elongation arrest were isol...
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