Coordinating the party: assembly factors and ribogenesis

Anna Marie Pyle

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2013.11.007

Coordinating the party: assembly factors and ribogenesis

Mol Cell. 2013 Nov 21;52(4):469-70. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.11.007.

Author

Anna Marie Pyle¹

Affiliation

¹ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: anna.pyle@yale.edu.

PMID: 24267447
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.11.007

Abstract

Using hydroxyl-radical footprinting to map the structures of RNA molecules in whole cells, Soper et al. (2013) determine the specific role of assembly factors during the final stages of ribosomal subunit assembly and visualize structural features of intermediate states.

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MeSH terms

Escherichia coli / metabolism*
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / metabolism*
Ribosome Subunits, Small, Bacterial / metabolism*

Substances

RNA, Ribosomal, 16S