MRNA helicases: The tacticians of translational control

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 235-245

  Parsyan, Armen ^a   Svitkin, Yuri ^a   Shahbazian, David ^b   Gkogkas, Christos ^a   Lasko, Paul ^a   Merrick, William C ^c   Sonenberg, Nahum ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DED1 PROTEIN; DHX29 PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4B; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR 4F; INITIATION FACTOR 4H; INITIATION FACTOR 5B; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 4; PROTEIN; RHA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79953052296     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3083     Document Type: Review

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