Dissection of the high rate constant for the binding of a ribotoxin to the ribosome.

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Restrictocin belongs to a family of site-specific ribonucleases that kill cells by inactivating the ribosome. The restrictocin-ribosome binding rate constant was observed to exceed 10(10) M(-1) s(-1). We have developed a transient-complex theory to model the binding rates of protein-protein and protein-RNA complexes. The theory predicts the rate constant as k(a) = k(a0) exp(-DeltaG(el)*/k(B)T), where k(a0) is the...

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