Characterization of the functional role of nucleotides within the URE2 IRES element and the requirements for eIF2A-mediated repression

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2264-2277

  Reineke, Lucas C ^a   Merrick, William C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap independent; cis sequences; eIF2A; IRES; URE2

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST;

EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POLY A; PRIONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 73249129769     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1722809     Document Type: Article

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