RatA (YfjG), an Escherichia coli toxin, inhibits 70S ribosome association to block translation initiation.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on February 15, 2011

Authors

Yonglong Zhang1, Masayori Inouye

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

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