Starting the protein synthesis machine: Eukaryotic translation initiation

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1201-1211

  Preiss, Thomas ^a,c   Hentze, Matthias W ^b  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c Molecular Genetics Program   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0344758983     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10362     Document Type: Review

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