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A novel class of bacterial translation factor RF3 mutations suggests specific structural domains for premature peptidyl-tRNA drop-off.
FEBS letters - 19 Feb 2010
Watanabe Yuya, Nakamura Yoshikazu, Ito Koichi
Abstract excerpt
The bacterial translation factor RF3 promotes translation termination by recycling the tRNA-mimicking release factors, RF1 and RF2, after mature polypeptide release. RF3 also enhances the premature peptidyl-tRNA drop-off reaction in the presence of RRF and EF-G. Despite the recently resolved X-ray crystal structure of RF3, the molecular details of the bimodal functionality of RF3 remain obscure. In this report,...
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