A 9 Å Resolution X-Ray Crystallographic Map of the Large Ribosomal Subunit

نویسندگان

  • Nenad Ban
  • Betty Freeborn
  • Poul Nissen
  • Pawel Penczek
  • Robert A. Grassucci
  • Robert Sweet
  • Joachim Frank
  • Peter B. Moore
  • Thomas A. Steitz
چکیده

The 50S subunit of the ribosome catalyzes the peptidyl-transferase reaction of protein synthesis. We have generated X-ray crystallographic electron density maps of the large ribosomal subunit from Haloarcula marismortui at various resolutions up to 9 A using data from crystals that diffract to 3 A. Positioning a 20 A resolution EM image of these particles in the crystal lattice produced phases accurate enough to locate the bound heavy atoms in three derivatives using difference Fourier maps, thus demonstrating the correctness of the EM model and its placement in the unit cell. At 20 A resolution, the X-ray map is similar to the EM map; however, at 9 A it reveals long, continuous, but branched features whose shape, diameter, and right-handed twist are consistent with segments of double-helical RNA that crisscross the subunit.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cell

دوره 93  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1998