The 5′-untranslated region of the mouse mammary tumor virus mRNA exhibits cap-independent translation initiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 618-632

  Vallejos, Maricarmen ^a   Ramdohr, Pablo ^a   Valiente Echeverría, Fernando ^a   Tapia, Karla ^a   Rodriguez, Felipe E ^a   Lowy, Fernando ^a   Huidobro Toro, J Pablo ^a   Dangerfield, John A ^b,c   López Lastra, Marcelo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4G; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE; CAPPED RNA; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; REV PROTEIN; REV PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; REV PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-1; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FIREFLY; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MICROINJECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; RENILLA; REPORTER GENE; RETICULOCYTE LYSATE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS GENOME; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RENILLA LUCIFERASE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES, FIREFLY; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RABBITS; REV GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77449087237     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp890     Document Type: Article

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