Adaptation to genome decay in the structure of the smallest eukaryotic ribosome

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 sma...

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Main Authors: David Nicholson, Marco Salamina, Johan Panek, Karla Helena-Bueno, Charlotte R. Brown, Robert P. Hirt, Neil A. Ranson, Sergey V. Melnikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28281-0