The diverse roles of the eIF4A family: You are the company you keep

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 166-172

  Lu, Wei Ting ^a   Wilczynska, Anna ^a   Smith, Ewan ^a   Bushell, Martin ^a  

^a MRC TOXICOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A); Helicase; MicroRNA (miRNA); Translation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4A1; INITIATION FACTOR 4A2; INITIATION FACTOR 4A3; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA METABOLISM; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84893214292     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20130161     Document Type: Article

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