Submissions tagged with translation initiation
(2 documents)
2 votes
Eukaryotic translation initiation machinery can operate in a prokaryotic-like mode without eIF2
Unlike prokaryotes, a specialized eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2), in the form of the ternary complex eIF2*GTP*Met-tRNAiMet is utilized to deliver the initiator tRNA to the ribosome within al…
Received 14 January 2008 17:04 UTC; Posted 14 January 2008
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology
3 votes
Internal ribosomal entry site lacks secondary structure
The search for mechanisms of translational regulation has yielded many experimentally identified internal ribosome entry sites (IRES). Because of the lack of sequence similarity among the experimen…
Received 23 October 2007 14:28 UTC; Posted 23 October 2007
Posted to: Microbiology, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
