The role of alternative translation start sites in the generation of human protein diversity

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 273, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 491-496

  Kochetov, Alex V ^a,b   Sarai, Akinori ^c   Rogozin, Igor B ^a,d   Shumny, Vladimir K ^a   Kolchanov, Nikolay A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

AUG context; Human mRNAs; Protein polymorphism; Subcellular localization

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN VARIANT; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CODON, INITIATOR; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 23044470239     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-1152-7     Document Type: Article

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