Two functionally redundant isoforms of Drosophila melanogaster eukaryotic initiation factor 4B are involved in cap-dependent translation, cell survival, and proliferation

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2923-2936

  Hernández, Greco ^a   Vázques Pianzola, Paula ^a   Zurbriggen, Andreas ^b   Altmann, Michael ^b   Sierra, José M ^c   Rivera Pomar, Rolando ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Ctro Reg de Estud Genomicos   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cell survival; Drosophila; Eukaryotic initiation factor 4B (eIF4B); Proliferation; Translation

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 4B; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENYLATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA CAPS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 3242768361     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04217.x     Document Type: Article

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