Evolution and the universality of the mechanism of initiation of protein synthesis

Gene

Volumn 432, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Nakamoto, Tokumasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative specificity mechanism in the initiation of protein synthesis; Evolutionarily conserved initiation signals in protein synthesis; Initiation mechanism for eukaryotic protein synthesis; Multisubstrate enzyme system in the initiation of protein synthesis; Non unique initiation signals in protein synthesis; Universal initiation mechanism for protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; RIBOSOME RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CODON; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 58549119787     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.11.001     Document Type: Review

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