Cryo-EM captures early ribosome assembly in action

oleh: Bo Qin, Simon M. Lauer, Annika Balke, Carlos H. Vieira-Vieira, Jörg Bürger, Thorsten Mielke, Matthias Selbach, Patrick Scheerer, Christian M. T. Spahn, Rainer Nikolay

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2023-02-01

Deskripsi

The production of ribosomes is a precisely orchestrated energy consuming cellular process of highest priority. Here, the authors use cryo-EM to show that bacterial ribosomal subunits, self-assembled from their purified RNA and protein components, mature along parallel pathways.