Secondary RNA structure and nucleotide specificity contribute to internal initiation mediated by the human tau 5' leader

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1344-1360

  Veo, Bethany L ^a,b   Krushel, Leslie A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Eukaryotic IRES; Parkinson disease; RNA Structure; Translation

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 84875203625     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.22181     Document Type: Article

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