Crystal Structure of a 70S Ribosome-tRNA Complex Reveals Functional Interactions and Rearrangements. This file, 1VSA, contains the 50S ribosome subunit. 30S ribosome subunit is in the file 2OW8
1vsa is a 30 chain structure with sequence from Thermus thermophilus. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 1vs9. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Our understanding of the mechanism of protein synthesis has undergone rapid progress in recent years as a result of low-resolution X-ray and cryo-EM structures of ribosome functional complexes and high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and vacant ribosomes. Here, we present the crystal structure of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome containing a model mRNA and two tRNAs at 3.7 A resolution. Many structural details of the interactions between the ribosome, tRNA, and mRNA in the P and E sites and the ways in which tRNA structure is distorted by its interactions with the ribosome are seen. Differences between the conformations of vacant and tRNA-bound 70S ribosomes suggest an induced fit of the ribosome structure in response to tRNA binding, including significant changes in the peptidyl-transferase catalytic site.
Crystal structure of a 70S ribosome-tRNA complex reveals functional interactions and rearrangements.,Korostelev A, Trakhanov S, Laurberg M, Noller HF Cell. 2006 Sep 22;126(6):1065-77. Epub 2006 Sep 7. PMID:16962654[1]
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