The intergenic spacer of the Drosophila Adh-Adhr dicistronic mRNA stimulates internal translation initiation

RNA Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ramanathan, Preethi ^a   Guo, Jiannan ^a   Whitehead, Rebekah N ^a   Brogna, Saverio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 end processing; Dicistronic mRNA; IRES; Splicing; Translation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REPORTER GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 85011942133     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.5.3.6676     Document Type: Article

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