Effect of intercistronic length on internal ribosome entry site (IRES) efficiency in bicistronic mRNA

Gene Expression

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 299-309

  Attal, Joé ^a   Theron, Marie Claire ^a   Puissant, Claudine ^a   Houdebine, Louis Marie ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bicistronic mRNA; Internal ribosome entry site (IRES); Translation

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CLONING VECTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PICORNAVIRUS; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; ROUS SARCOMA ONCOVIRUS; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; POLIOVIRUS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0033331382     PISSN: 10522166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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