Eukaryotic translation initiation: There are (at least) two sides to every story

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 356-361

  Sachs, Alan B ^a   Varani, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E;

COMPLEX FORMATION; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; POLY A; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034100762     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75120     Document Type: Review

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