Binding specificities and potential roles of isoforms of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E in Leishmania

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1969-1979

  Yoffe, Yael ^a   Zuberek, Joanna ^b   Lerer, Asaf ^a   Lewdorowicz, Magdalena ^b   Stepinski, Janusz ^b   Altmann, Michael ^c   Darzynkiewicz, Edward ^b   Shapira, Michal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; ISOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA CAP ANALOGS; RNA CAPS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33845622060     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00230-06     Document Type: Article

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