Article
Thermodynamic and kinetic insights into stop codon recognition by release factor 1.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Trappl Krista, Mathew Merrill A, Joseph Simpson
Abstract excerpt
Stop codon recognition is a crucial event during translation termination and is performed by class I release factors (RF1 and RF2 in bacterial cells). Recent crystal structures showed that stop codon recognition is achieved mainly through a network of hydrogen bonds and stacking interactions between the stop codon and conserved residues in domain II of RF1/RF2. Additionally, previous studies suggested that...
Topics
- Codon, Terminator
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Hydrolysis
- Kinetics
- Models, Molecular
- Mutation
- Peptide Termination Factors
- Ribosomes
- Thermodynamics
