Eukaryotic translation initiation factors and regulators

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 56-63

  Sonenberg, Nahum ^a   Dever, Thomas E ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037311233     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(03)00009-5     Document Type: Review

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