The 5′ Untranslated Region and Gag product of Idefix, a Long Terminal Repeat-Retrotransposon from Drosophila melanogaster, Act Together to Initiate a Switch between Translated and Untranslated States of the Genomic mRNA

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8246-8254

  Meignin, Carine ^a   Bailly, Jean Luc ^b   Arnaud, Frédérick ^a   Dastugue, Bernard ^a   Vaury, Chantal ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA; CAPPED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CISTRON; DNA TRANSPOSITION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVELOPE GENE; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETICULOCYTE; RETROPOSON; RETROPOSON IDEFIX; RETROVIRUS; RIBOSOME; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURAL GENE; VERTEBRATE; WHEAT GERM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RNA VIRUSES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; GENES; GENES, GAG; GENES, INSECT; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 0242412273     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.22.8246-8254.2003     Document Type: Article

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