Article
Emerging links between initiation of translation and human diseases.
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society - 1 Aug 2002
Kozak Marilyn
Abstract excerpt
Some diseases are caused by mutations that perturb the initiation step of translation by changing the context around the AUG(START) codon or introducing upstream AUG codons. The scanning mechanism provides a framework for understanding the effects of these and other structural changes in mRNAs derived from oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and other key regulatory genes. In mRNAs from mutated as well as normal...
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