From factors to mechanisms: Translation and translational control in eukaryotes

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 515-521

  Preiss, Thomas ^a   Hentze, Matthias W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADENYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032858414     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)00005-2     Document Type: Review

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