Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States.
Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2012 Apr;22(2):168-74. doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.01.008. Epub 2012 Feb 13.
The past decade has produced an avalanche of experimental data on the structure and dynamics of the ribosome. Groundbreaking studies in structural biology and kinetics have placed important constraints on ribosome structural dynamics. However, a gulf remains between static structures and time dependent data. In particular, X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM studies produce static models of the ribosome in various states, but lack dynamic information. Single molecule studies produce information on the rates of transitions between these states but do not have high-resolution spatial information. Computational studies have aided in bridging this gap by providing atomic resolution simulations of structural fluctuations and transitions between configurations.
过去十年产生了大量关于核糖体结构和动力学的实验数据。结构生物学和动力学的开创性研究对核糖体结构动力学施加了重要的限制。然而,静态结构和时变数据之间仍然存在差距。特别是,X 射线晶体学和低温电子显微镜研究产生了核糖体在各种状态下的静态模型,但缺乏动态信息。单分子研究提供了这些状态之间跃迁速率的信息,但没有高分辨率的空间信息。计算研究通过提供结构波动和构型之间转换的原子分辨率模拟,有助于弥合这一差距。