Control of eukaryotic protein synthesis by upstream open reading frames in the 5′-untranslated region of an mRNA

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Meijer, Hedda A ^a   Thomas, Adri A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 UTR; Translation initiation; Translational control; uAUG; uORF

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; RNA;

RIBOSOME;

PROTEINS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME;

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CODON; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036797563     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20011706     Document Type: Review

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