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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 275 - 276 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0508-275

Breaking the barriers of translation

Scott C Blanchard1

  1. Scott C. Blanchard is in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, the Weill-Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, Whitney 205, New York, New York 10021, USA.
    e-mail: scb2005@med.cornell.edu

New data from single-molecule optical trapping methods provide exciting clues as to the underlying mechanism of ribosome translocation along mRNA and a powerful new approach for future investigations of translation regulation.

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