An RNA G-quadruplex in the 5′ UTR of the NRAS proto-oncogene modulates translation

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 218-221

  Kumari, Sunita ^a   Bugaut, Anthony ^a   Huppert, Julian L ^b   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33947310727     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio864     Document Type: Article

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