Eukaryotic cold shock domain proteins: Highly versatile regulators of gene expression

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-118

  Mihailovich, Marija ^a,b   Militti, Cristina ^a   Gabaldón, Toni ^a   Gebauer, Fátima ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

CSD; Exosome; Lin 28; S1; Translation initiation factor; UNR; YB 1

Indexed keywords

COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; FROG GERM CELL SPECIFIC Y BOX PROTEIN 2; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; INITIATION FACTOR 1A; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; INITIATION FACTOR 5A; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN GRP2; PROTEIN LIN 28; PROTEIN PRP22; PROTEIN RP40; PROTEIN RRP44; PROTEIN UPSTREAM N RAS; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; Y BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1;

BINDING AFFINITY; EUKARYOTE; EXOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; EXOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; Y-BOX-BINDING PROTEIN 1;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 76549101962     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900122     Document Type: Review

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