The molecular basis of mTORC1-regulated translation

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 213-221

  Thoreen, Carson C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP BINDING PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4F; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MESSENGER RNA; MECHANISTIC TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 85014970557     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20160072     Document Type: Review

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