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New Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Isoform Generated by Internal Ribosome Entry Site-Driven CUG Translation Initiation
1 Dec 2001
Abstract excerpt
We recently demonstrated that the very long 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA contains two independent internal ribosome entry sites (IRES A and B). In the human sequence, four potential CUG translation initiation codons are located in between these IRES and are in frame with the classical AUG start codon. By in vitro translation and COS-7 cell transfections, we...
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