Journal
NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 89-100Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3176
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Deutsche Forschergruppe (DFG), Forschergruppe [1805]
- Major State Basic Research of China 973 project [2012CB911000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270847, 31322015]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Ribosomes translate the codon sequence of an mRNA into the amino acid sequence of the corresponding protein. One of the most crucial events is the translocation reaction, which involves movement of both the nnRNA and the attached tRNAs by one codon length and is catalysed by the GTPase elongation factor G (EF-G). Interestingly, recent studies have identified a structurally related GTPase, EF4, that catalyses movement of the tRNA(2)-mRNA complex in the opposite direction when the ribosome stalls, which is known as back-translocation. In this Review, we describe recent insights into the mechanistic basis of both translocation and back-translocation.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available