Translation initiation factor 2γ mutant alters start codon selection independent of Met-tRNA binding

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 6877-6888

  Alone, Pankaj V ^a   Cao, Chune ^a   Dever, Thomas E ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; INITIATION FACTOR; METHIONINE; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2 GAMMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 55849085351     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01147-08     Document Type: Article

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