Alternative translation start sites and their significance for eukaryotic proteomes

Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 705-712

  Kochetov, A V ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

5 untranslated region; AUG; Eukaryotes; Leader region; mRNA; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749821561     PISSN: 00268933     EISSN: 16083245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0026893306050049     Document Type: Review

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