uAUG-mediated translational initiations are responsible for human mu opioid receptor gene expression

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1113-1124

  Song, Kyu Young ^a   Kim, Chun Sung ^a,b   Hwang, Cheol Kyu ^a   Choi, Hack Sun ^a   Law, Ping Yee ^a   Wei, Li Na ^a   Loh, Horace H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Chosun University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human mu opioid receptor; Post transcriptional regulation; UORF

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; START CODON;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TUMOR CELL LINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CODON, INITIATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 77954729597     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00734.x     Document Type: Article

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