학술논문
Adaptation to genome decay in the structure of the smallest eukaryotic ribosome
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2041-1723
Abstract
Many parasitic organisms contain molecular structures that are drastically smaller than analogous structures in non-parasitic organisms. Here the authors describe a cryo-EM structure of the ribosome from E. cuniculi that reveals that it compensated rRNA truncations by evolving the ability to use small molecules as ribosomal building blocks.