Functional elements in initiation factors 1, 1A, and 2β discriminate against poor AUG context and non-AUG start codons

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4814-4831

  Martin Marcos, Pilar ^a   Cheung, Yuen Nei ^a,b   Hinnebusch, Alan G ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 1A; INITIATION FACTOR 2BETA; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CODON, INITIATOR; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-1; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2B; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 83255187893     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: 10985549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.05819-11     Document Type: Article

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