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Nature 407, 306-307 (21 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35030271

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Molecular biology: Small subunit, big science

James R. Williamson

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, and consist of two subunits, the large and the small. The structure of the small subunit of a bacterial ribosome has now been solved at atomic resolution, and is described in papers by Ramakrishnan and colleagues on pages 327 and 340 of this issue1, 2.