5′-Untranslated regions with multiple upstream AUG codons can support low-level translation via leaky scanning and reinitiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1382-1391

  Wang, Xue Qing ^a   Rothnagel, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; URACIL;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CODON; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CODON; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 2542589355     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh305     Document Type: Article

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