Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-I community)
Friday, May 26, 2023
Venki Ramakrishnan, Ph.D.
Group Leader,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Fellow, Trinity College
Cambridge, England
Initiation of Translation in Eukaryotes
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Chandrasekaran, V., Desai, N., Burton, N. O., Yang, H., Price, J., Miska, E. A., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2021). Visualizing formation of the active site in the mitochondrial ribosome. eLife, 10, e68806.
Desai, N., Yang, H., Chandrasekaran, V., Kazi, R., Minczuk, M., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2020). Elongational stalling activates mitoribosome-associated quality control. Science, 370(6520), 1105–1110.
Brito Querido, J., Sokabe, M., Kraatz, S., Gordiyenko, Y., Skehel, J. M., Fraser, C. S., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2020). Structure of a human 48S translational initiation complex. Science, 369(6508), 1220–1227.
Rae, C. D., Gordiyenko, Y., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2019). How a circularized tmRNA moves through the ribosome. Science, 363(6428), 740–744.
Gordiyenko, Y., Llácer, J. L., & Ramakrishnan, V. (2019). Structural basis for the inhibition of translation through eIF2α phosphorylation. Nature communications, 10(1), 2640.
