Review
The ribosome returned
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8107, USA
Journal of Biology 2009, 8:8 doi:10.1186/jbiol103
Published: 26 January 2009Abstract
Since the mid-1990s, insights obtained from electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography have transformed our understanding of how the most important ribozyme in the cell, the ribosome, catalyzes protein synthesis. This review provides a brief account of how this structural revolution came to pass, and the impact it has had on our understanding of how the ribosome decodes messenger RNAs.
