Eukaryotic initiator tRNA: Finely tuned and ready for action

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 396-404

  Kolitz, Sarah E ^a   Lorsch, Jon R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Initiator tRNA; Ribosome; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANOSINE; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANTICODON; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, MET;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 71549155597     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.047     Document Type: Review

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