How Should We Think About the Ribosome?

The ribosome as a molecular machine: the mechanism of tRNA–mRNA movement in translocation

(2011) Marina V. Rodnina et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Dynamics of the translational machinery

(2011) Alexey Petrov et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Almost lost in translation. Cryo-EM of a dynamic macromolecular complex: the ribosome

(2011) Mikel Valle   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Biological mechanisms, one molecule at a time

(2011) I. Tinoco et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Single-Molecule Fluorescence Measurements of Ribosomal Translocation Dynamics

(2011) Chunlai Chen et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

How mutations in tRNA distant from the anticodon affect the fidelity of decoding

(2011) T Martin Schmeing et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cryoelectron microscopy structures of the ribosome complex in intermediate states during tRNA translocation

(2011) J. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Molecular Motors

(2010) R. Dean Astumian   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Ribosome dynamics and tRNA movement by time-resolved electron cryomicroscopy

(2010) Niels Fischer et al.   NATURE

Correlated conformational events in EF-G and the ribosome regulate translocation

(2010) James B Munro et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Structural rearrangements of the ribosome at the tRNA proofreading step

(2010) Lasse Jenner et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Ribosomal Translocation: One Step Closer to the Molecular Mechanism

(2009) Shinichiro Shoji et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

Single-molecule observations of ribosome function

(2009) Scott C Blanchard   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The Ribosome as a Conveying Thermal Ratchet Machine

(2009) Alexander S. Spirin   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Insights into substrate stabilization from snapshots of the peptidyl transferase center of the intact 70S ribosome

(2009) Rebecca M Voorhees et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Allosteric collaboration between elongation factor G and the ribosomal L1 stalk directs tRNA movements during translation

(2009) J. Fei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural Insight into Nascent Polypeptide Chain-Mediated Translational Stalling

(2009) B. Seidelt et al.   SCIENCE

Structures of the Ribosome in Intermediate States of Ratcheting

(2009) W. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

The Structure of the Ribosome with Elongation Factor G Trapped in the Posttranslocational State

(2009) Y.-G. Gao et al.   SCIENCE

The Crystal Structure of the Ribosome Bound to EF-Tu and Aminoacyl-tRNA

(2009) T. M. Schmeing et al.   SCIENCE

Recognition of aminoacyl-tRNA: a common molecular mechanism revealed by cryo-EM

(2008) Wen Li et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Coupling of Ribosomal L1 Stalk and tRNA Dynamics during Translation Elongation

(2008) Jingyi Fei et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Following translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time

(2008) Jin-Der Wen et al.   NATURE