The mRNA cap-binding protein eIF4E in post-transcriptional gene expression

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 503-511

  Von Der Haar, Tobias ^a   Gross, John D ^b   Wagner, Gerhard ^c   McCarthy, John E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP BINDING PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E;

COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA CAP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 2542506326     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb779     Document Type: Review

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