About the Book
Section I: Ribosome structure
1 Anat Bashan and Ada Yonath
Ribosome crystallography: From early evolution to contemporary medical insights
2 Venki Ramakrishnan
Structural studies on decoding, termination and translocation in the bacterial ribosome
3 C. Axel Innis, Gregor Blaha, David Bulkley, and Thomas A. Steitz
Structural studies of complexes of the 70S ribosome
4 Lasse B. Jenner, Natalia Demeshkina, Gulnara Yusupova, and Marat Yusupov
Interaction of bacterial ribosomes with mRNA and tRNA as studied by X-ray crystallographic analysis
5 Steven T. Gregory, Hasan Demirci, Jennifer F. Carr, Riccardo Belardinelli, Jill R. Thompson, Dale Cameron, Daniel Rodriguez-Correa, Frank Murphy, Venki Ramakrishnan, Gerwald Jogl and Albert E. Dahlberg
Genetic and crystallographic approaches to investigating ribosome structure and function
6 Jack A. Dunkle and Jamie H. D. Cate
The packing of ribosomes in crystals and polysomes
7 Adam Ben-Shem, Lasse B. Jenner, Gulnara Yusupova, and Marat Yusupov
Crystal structure of the eukaryotic 80S ribosome
8 Rajendra K. Agrawal, Manjuli R. Sharma, Aymen Yassin, and Linda L. Spremulli
Structure and function of organellar ribosomes
9 Petr Sergiev, Anna Golovina, Irina Prokhorova, Olga Sergeeva, Ilya Osterman, Mikhail Nesterchuk, Dmitry Burakovsky, Alexey Bogdanov, and Olga Dontsova
Modifications of ribosomal RNA: From enzymes to function Section II: Recruiting the ribosome for translation 10 Angelita Simonetti, Stefano Marzi, Alexander G. Myasnikov, Jean-François Menetret, and Bruno Klaholz
Insights into translation initiation and termination complexes and into the polysome architecture
11 Michael Pavlov, Suparna Sanyal, and Måns Ehrenberg
Initiation of bacterial protein synthesis with wild type and novel mutants of initiation factor 212 Claudio O. Gualerzi, Anna Maria Giuliodori, Anna Brandi, Fabio DI Pietro, Lolita Piersimoni, Attilio Fabbretti, and Cynthia L. Pon
Translation initiation at the root of the cold-shock translational bias
13 Sarah F. Mitchell, Sarah E. Walker, Vaishnavi Rajagopal, Colin Echeverría Aitken, and Jon R. Lorsch
Recruiting knotty partners: The roles of translation initiation factors in mRNA recruitment to the eukaryotic ribosome
14 Andrey V. Pisarev, Maxim A. Skabkin, Vera P. Pisareva, Olga V. Skabkina, Christopher U. T. Hellen, and Tatyana V. Pestova
The mechanism of ribosomal recycling in eukaryotes Section III: Decoding, fidelity, and peptidyl transfer 15 Jared M. Schrader, Margaret E. Saks, and Olke C. Uhlenbeck
The specific interaction between aminoacyl-tRNAs and elongation factor Tu
16 Marina V. Rodnina
Mechanisms of Decoding and Peptide Bond Formation
17 Rodrigo F. Ortiz-Meoz, Shan L. He, Hani S. Zaher, and Rachel Green
Sense and nonsense recognition by the ribosome
18 Magnus Johansson, Ka Weng Ieong, Michael Pavlov, and Måns Ehrenberg
Rate and accuracy of ribosomal peptidyl transfer
19 Aishwarya Devaraj, Sean P. McClory, Daoming Qin, Joshua M. Leisring, and Kurt Fredrick
Mutations in 16S rRNA that decrease the fidelity of translation
20 Rashid Akbergenov, Dmitry Shcherbakov, Tanja Matt, Stefan Duscha, Martin Meyer, Déborah Perez Fernandez, Rashmi Pathak, Shinde Harish, Iwona Kudyba, Srinivas R. Dubbaka, Sandrina Silva, Maria del Carmen Ruiz Ruiz, Sumantha Salian, Andrea Vasella, and Erik C. Böttger
Decoding and deafness: Two sides of a coin
21 Biswajoy Roy-Chaudhuri, Narayanaswamy Kirthi, Teresa Kelley, and Gloria M. Culver
Ribosomal protein S5, ribosomal biogenesis and translational fidelity Section IV: Elongation and ribosome dynamics
22 Daniel D. MacDougall and Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr.
Exploring the structural dynamics of the translational machinery using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer
23 Sotaro Uemura and Joseph D. Puglisi
About the Author:
Dr. Marina V. Rodnina
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wintermeyer
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Dept. of Physical Biochemistry, Goettingen, Germany
Dr. Rachel Green
Dept. of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
