Professor Venki Ramakrishnan (LMB, Cambridge, UK), who was awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 2009 will give a seminar on Friday 3 September at the Amphi Chadwick (ILL).

The seminar is hosted by the Partnership for Structural Biology.

Abstract

The high resolution structures of the 30S subunit and more recently the entire ribosome have shed light on how the ribosome ensures the fidelity of translation. We will describe our studies on the nature of the recognition of codon-anticodon base pairing by the 30S ribosomal subunit, and how this leads to a series of conformational changes that results in the hydrolysis of GTP by elongation factor Tu, leading to the acceptance of the new amino acyl tRNA for the formation of a peptide bond.


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