'Freezing a Bullet' to Find Clues to Ribosome Assembly Process (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

'Freezing a Bullet' to Find Clues to Ribosome Assembly Process

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Crystal structure of the assembly chaperone of ribosomal protein L4 (Acl4) that picks up a newly synthesized ribosomal protein when it emerges from the ribosome in the cytoplasm, protects it from the degradation machinery, and delivers it to the assembly site of new ribosomes in the nucleus.

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Ferdinand Huber/Caltech

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