The roles of individual eukaryotic translation initiation factors in ribosomal scanning and initiation codon selection

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2906-2922

  Pestova, Tatyana V ^a,b   Kolupaeva, Victoria G ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

EIF1; MRNA; Ribosome; Scanning; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4B; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA 40S; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

5' FLANKING REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4F; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GLOBINS; HYDROLYSIS; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; RIBOSOMES; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037112055     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1020902     Document Type: Article

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