N-formylmethionylated-tRNA仿

Julia Thaler1, Egor A Syroegin2, Kathrin Breuker1

  • 1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Center for Molecular Biosciences, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80-82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

ACS chemical biology
|July 11, 2023
PubMed
概括

研究人员开发了一种简单的方法,以创建具有特定Nα-formylmethionyl终端的耐水解RNA-联体,这对于研究蛋白质合成至关重要. 这一进步使得精确的模仿能够探索核糖体翻译机制.

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