Alternative transcriptional initiation and splicing define the translational efficiencies of zebrafish mRNAs encoding eukaryotic initiation factor 4E

Differentiation

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-22

  Fahrenkrug, Scott C ^a,c   Hackett Jr , Perry B ^a   Joshi, Bhavesh ^b   Jagus, Rosemary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; Gene structure; Nuclease S1 protection; Oogenesis; Translational initiation

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEASE S1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ZEBRA FISH;

EID: 0033883779     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2000.066001015.x     Document Type: Article

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