The structures of nonprotein-coding RNAs that drive internal ribosome entry site function

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-212

  Plank, Terra Dawn M ^a   Kieft, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR 4F; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84862025869     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1105     Document Type: Review

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