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Translation Mechanisms


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Jacques Lapointe
Universite Laval

Léa Brakier-Gingras
University of Montreal


ISBN: 978-0-306-47839-0
Pub date: 2003-06-26
468 pages


Table of contents

tRNA structure and identity.
Richard Giegé and Magali Frugier

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase structure and evolution.
Dieter Söll and Michael Ibba

tRNA-dependent amino acid discrimination by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.
Tamara L. Hendrickson and Paul Schimmel

Aminoacyl-tRNA maturation.
Sylvain Blanquet, Yves Mechulam, Emmanuelle Schmitt & Lionel Vial

Incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins.
Thomas Magliery, Miro Pastrnak, J. Christopher Anderson, Stephen W. Santoro, Brad Herberich, Eric Meggers, Lei Wang, Peter G. Schultz

RNA amino acid binding sites and coding sequences.
Michael Yarus

Mitochondrial aminoacylation systems and human diseases.
Catherine Florentz and Marie Sissler

mRNA decay in Escheria coli: Enzymes, Mechanisms and Adaptation.
Rudolph K. Beran, Annie Prud'homme-Genereux, Kristian E. Baker, Xin Miao, Robert Simons and George A. Mackie

The interplay between translation and mRNA decay in procaryotes: A discussion on current paradigms

Marc Dreyfus and Susan Joyce
Polyadenylation and degradations of RNA in prokaryotes.
Philippe Regnier and Paulo Marujo

The end in sight: poly(A), translation and mRNA stability in eukaryotes.
Thomas Preiss

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells: From pre-mRNA processing to mRNA translation and degradation.
Lynne E. Maquat

The role of the exosome and ski complexes in mRNA turnover.
Philip Mitchell

Crystal structures of the ribosome and ribosomal subunits.
Brian T. Wimberly

Probing the role of ribosomal RNA in protein synthesis through mutagenesis.
Lea Brakier-Gingras, Francois Belanger, Michael O'Connor

Conformational dynamics within the ribosome.
J. Stephen Lodmell, Scott P. Hennelly

Mechanism of translation initiation in eukaryotes
Francis Poulin and Nahum Sonenberg

Ribosomes on standby: A prelude to translational (re)initiation.
Maarten de Smit and Jan van Duin

Translational elogation.
Poul Nissen, Jens Nyborg, Brian F.C. Clark

Translational termination, ribosome recycling and tmRNA function.
Richard H. Buckingham and Mans Ehrenberg

Recoding: Site- or mRNA-specific alteration of genetic readout utilized for gene expression.
Ivaylo P. Ivanov, Olga L. Gurvich, Raymond F. Gesteland, John F. Atkins

Control of stable RNA synthesis.
Melanie M. Barker and Richard L. Gourse

Regulation of the Expression of Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translational factors.
Harald Putzer and Sourmaya Laalami

Inhibitors of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as antibiotics and tools for structural and mechanistic studies.
Robert Chenevert, Stephanie Bernier, Jacques Lapointe

Antibiotics as indicators of functional components of the ribosome.
Dominique Fourmy, Satoko Yoshizawa, Stephen Douthwaite