Identification of a motif that mediates polypyrimidine tract-binding protein-dependent internal ribosome entry

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1556-1571

  Mitchell, Sally A ^a   Spriggs, Keith A ^a   Bushell, Martin ^a   Evans, Joanne R ^a   Stoneley, Mark ^a   Le Quesne, John P C ^a   Spriggs, Ruth V ^b   Willis, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial IRES; Internal ribosome entry; IRES; Polypyrimidine tract binding protein; Translation

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 22344436961     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.339105     Document Type: Article

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