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Translation and ribosome assembly in extremely thermophilic archaebacteria
P Londei1, S Altamura, E Caprini
1Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma (Policlinico Umberto I), Italy.
Biochimie
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Several features of translation and ribosome structure in extremely thermophilic, sulfur-dependent archaebacteria are described, including: i) a peculiar mechanism of transfer RNA-mediated 70S ribosome formation from free subunits; ii) poly(U)translation by hybrid ribosomes composed by one archaebacterial and one eucaryotic subunit; iii) ribosome assembly and homologous and heterologous RNA/protein recognition.