forming domains and motifs that are essential for ribosome function. The rRNA structures also provide binding sites for ribosomal proteins, which help stabilize the overall structure of the ribosome.

The rRNA forms the structural and functional core of the ribosome ... Despite significant advances in our understanding of ribosome structure and function, many aspects of ribosome biology remain to ...

This important study by Bi and colleagues employed a clever genetics screen to uncover the role of the GidB rRNA methylase in translation fidelity, under certain conditions, in Mycobacterium smegmatis ...

who shared a Nobel Prize in 2009 for her work figuring out the structure of the ribosome. Yonath notes that the pocket in ribosomal RNA where amino acids are joined together to form proteins looks ...

Antibiotic resistance study explores a recently identified mechanism in bacteria: the shedding of methylation marks from ribosomal RNA.

Michaeli. More information: K. Shanmugha Rajan et al, A single pseudouridine on rRNA regulates ribosome structure and function in the mammalian parasite Trypanosoma brucei, Nature Communications ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published in Nature ...

Ribosomes are crucial to cells, because they translate messenger RNA molecules into the proteins that are necessary for cells ...