Total number of amino acids in the ribosome

Value 7459 amino acids
Organism Bacteria Escherichia coli
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Method Based on summing the weights of components given in ecocyc database (see ref)
Comments Summation performed by Tobias Bollenbach. value is 7336 according to Wittmann, H. G. 1982. Components of the bacterial ribosome. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 51:155–183. PMID 6180678
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