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Protein Synthesis: Uncoupling of Polymerization from Template Control

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Isolated 5OS ribosomal subunits can be induced to catalyse polymerization of aminoacyl-tRNA in absence of template and 30S subunits.

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MONRO, R. Protein Synthesis: Uncoupling of Polymerization from Template Control. Nature 223, 903–905 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223903a0

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