Ribosome reinitiation can explain length-dependent translation of messenger RNA

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Rogers, David W ^a   Böttcher, Marvin A ^a   Traulsen, Arne ^a   Greig, Duncan ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA;

ENCODED PROTEINS; EUKARYOTICS; LINEAR MODELING; MECHANISTICS; MESSENGER RNA; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REINITIATION; SIMPLE++; SYNTHESIS RATE;

PROTEINS;

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA REINITIATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; START CODON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSLATION ELONGATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATIONAL PROTEIN MODIFICATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85021697763     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005592     Document Type: Article

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