Evidence for involvement of trans-acting factors in selection of the AUG start codon during eukaryotic translational initiation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3523-3534

  McBratney, Susan ^a   Sarnow, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; THIOURIDINE;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 0029904186     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3523     Document Type: Article

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