Protein-synthesizing GTPase
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Protein-synthesizing GTPases are enzymes involved in mRNA translation into protein by the ribosome. They usually include translation initiation factors such as IF-2 and translation elongation factors such as EF-Tu
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EF-Tu
EF-Tu is one of the prokaryotic elongation factors.The prokaryotic factor EF-Tu mediates the entry of the aminoacyl-tRNA into a free site of the ribosome. EF-Tu functions by binding an aminoacylated, or charged, tRNA molecule in the cytoplasm...
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