A perspective on mammalian upstream open reading frame function

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1690-1700

  Somers, Joanna ^a   Pöyry, Tuija ^a   Willis, Anne E ^a  

^a MRC TOXICOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Protein synthesis; Translational control; UORF; Upstream open reading frame

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 3; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4B; INITIATION FACTOR 4F; INITIATION FACTOR 4G; INITIATION FACTOR 5; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RNA; RNA 18S; THROMBOPOIETIN;

CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84884887844     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: 18785875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2013.04.020     Document Type: Review

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