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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2019 Nov 25;26(12):1132–1140. doi: 10.1038/s41594-019-0331-x

Extended Data Fig. 5. Views of the mRNA density in the EM map of the poly(A)-stalled ribosome.

Extended Data Fig. 5

The density map is sliced through the ribosome in a plane that reveals the decoding centre and shows the mRNA within the small subunit. The large and small subunits (blue and yellow, respectively), P-site tRNA (green) and mRNA (red) are colored. The inset shows a zoomed in region of the mRNA channel, illustrating that the poly(A) mRNA is ordered through most of the channel. The bottom panel shows the mRNA density in the P- and A-sites in the final refined and sharpened map. The mRNA is well ordered in the P-site due to base-pairing with the P-site tRNA, and ordered in the A-site due to stabilizing interactions with rRNA as shown in Fig. 3.