Visualización de la dinámica de traducción en detalle atómico dentro de una célula bacteriana

Liang Xue1,2, Swantje Lenz3, Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva1

  • 1Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.

Nature
|September 28, 2022
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio visualiza la síntesis de proteínas bacterianas (traducción) en tiempo real utilizando tomografía criolectrónica. Revela las estructuras y la dinámica de los ribosomas, incluida la forma en que la proteína ribosómica L9 coordina los polisomas para una traducción precisa.

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