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. 2013;11(3):e1001509.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001509. Epub 2013 Mar 12.

Positive charges put the brakes on ribosomes

Roland G Roberts  1
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Positive charges put the brakes on ribosomes

Roland G Roberts. PLoS Biol. 2013.
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Figure 1. What slows ribosomes down? The freely translating ribosome (A) was thought to be slowed by codons that need rare tRNAs (B) or by mRNA secondary structure (C). Charneski and Hurst, however, show that the dominant braking factor is the presence of positively charged amino acids (red beads) in the exit tunnel (D).
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