Evolutionary importance of translation elongation factor eEF1A variant switching: eEF1A1 down-regulation in muscle is conserved in Xenopus but is controlled at a post-transcriptional level

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-24

  Newbery, Helen J ^a   Stancheva, Irina ^b   Zimmerman, Lyle B ^c   Abbott, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEF1A1; EEF1A2; Translation elongation; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; ELONGATION FACTOR 1A1; ELONGATION FACTOR 1A2; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; RATS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

MAMMALIA; MUS; RATTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960562012     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.062     Document Type: Article

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