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MSI and MSII made on Ribosome in Idling Step of Protein Synthesis

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The unusual guanosine nucleotides, MSI and MSII, accumulated in vivo during amino-acid starvation of stringent strains of E. coli are shown to be synthesized in vitro as a product of an idling step in protein synthesis occurring on the ribosomes.

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    WILLIAM A. HASELTINE & RICARDO BLOCK

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

    WALTER GILBERT & KLAUS WEBER

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HASELTINE, W., BLOCK, R., GILBERT, W. et al. MSI and MSII made on Ribosome in Idling Step of Protein Synthesis. Nature 238, 381–384 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238381a0

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