The cryo-electron microscopy structure of the ribosome from the microsporidium Vairimorpha necatrix reveals that, despite extreme genome compaction reducing the ribosomal RNA to a functionally conserved core, most ribosomal proteins are retained and adapt to form the minimized protein synthesis machinery in these eukaryotic parasites.
- Jonas Barandun
- Mirjam Hunziker
- Sebastian Klinge
