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Diverse bacterial genomes encode an operon of two genes, one of which is an unusual class-I release factor that potentially recognizes atypical mRNA signals other than normal stop codons.

Baranov PV, Vestergaard B, Hamelryck T, Gesteland RF, Nyborg J, Atkins JF.

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Mutations in the highly conserved GGQ motif of class 1 polypeptide release factors abolish ability of human eRF1 to trigger peptidyl-tRNA hydrolysis.

Frolova LY, Tsivkovskii RY, Sivolobova GF, Oparina NY, Serpinsky OI, Blinov VM, Tatkov SI, Kisselev LL.

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Structure of the Escherichia coli ribosomal termination complex with release factor 2.

Klaholz BP, Pape T, Zavialov AV, Myasnikov AG, Orlova EV, Vestergaard B, Ehrenberg M, van Heel M.

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Methylation of bacterial release factors RF1 and RF2 is required for normal translation termination in vivo.

Mora L, Heurgué-Hamard V, de Zamaroczy M, Kervestin S, Buckingham RH.

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Mapping functionally important motifs SPF and GGQ of the decoding release factor RF2 to the Escherichia coli ribosome by hydroxyl radical footprinting. Implications for macromolecular mimicry and structural changes in RF2.

Scarlett DJ, McCaughan KK, Wilson DN, Tate WP.

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Stop codon recognition and interactions with peptide release factor RF3 of truncated and chimeric RF1 and RF2 from Escherichia coli.

Mora L, Zavialov A, Ehrenberg M, Buckingham RH.

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Amber (UAG) suppressors affected in UGA/UAA-specific polypeptide release factor 2 of bacteria: genetic prediction of initial binding to ribosome preceding stop codon recognition.

Yoshimura K, Ito K, Nakamura Y.

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Comparative study of translation termination sites and release factors (RF1 and RF2) in procaryotes.

Ozawa Y, Saito R, Washio T, Tomita M.

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The accuracy of codon recognition by polypeptide release factors.

Freistroffer DV, Kwiatkowski M, Buckingham RH, Ehrenberg M.

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Recent advances in peptide chain termination.

Craigen WJ, Lee CC, Caskey CT.

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The essential role of the invariant GGQ motif in the function and stability in vivo of bacterial release factors RF1 and RF2.

Mora L, Heurgué-Hamard V, Champ S, Ehrenberg M, Kisselev LL, Buckingham RH.

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Indirect regulation of translational termination efficiency at highly expressed genes and recoding sites by the factor recycling function of Escherichia coli release factor RF3.

Crawford DJ, Ito K, Nakamura Y, Tate WP.

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Two regions of the Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA are important for decoding stop signals in polypeptide chain termination.

Brown CM, McCaughan KK, Tate WP.

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Class-1 translation termination factors: invariant GGQ minidomain is essential for release activity and ribosome binding but not for stop codon recognition.

Seit-Nebi A, Frolova L, Justesen J, Kisselev L.

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Common and specific amino acid residues in the prokaryotic polypeptide release factors RF1 and RF2: possible functional implications.

Oparina NJ, Kalinina OV, Gelfand MS, Kisselev LL.

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A post-translational modification in the GGQ motif of RF2 from Escherichia coli stimulates termination of translation.

Dinçbas-Renqvist V, Engström A, Mora L, Heurgué-Hamard V, Buckingham R, Ehrenberg M.

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[Non-standard genetic codes and translation termination]

Lekomtsev SA.

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A cryo-electron microscopic study of ribosome-bound termination factor RF2.

Rawat UB, Zavialov AV, Sengupta J, Valle M, Grassucci RA, Linde J, Vestergaard B, Ehrenberg M, Frank J.

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A tripeptide 'anticodon' deciphers stop codons in messenger RNA.

Ito K, Uno M, Nakamura Y.

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Release factors eRF1 and RF2: a universal mechanism controls the large conformational changes.

Ma B, Nussinov R.

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