Faulty old ideas about translational regulation paved the way for current confusion about how microRNAs function

Gene

Volumn 423, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-115

  Kozak, Marilyn ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

3 UTR; Ceruloplasmin; IRES; Maskin; MicroRNA; mRNA binding protein; Translational control

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; CYCLIN B1; MICRORNA;

CISTRON; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 51249106432     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.07.013     Document Type: Review

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