Translation factors: in sickness and in health.

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It has been known for many years that aberrant levels of the factors involved in translation of mRNA can contribute to disease, most notably cancer. However, despite the wealth of information gathered about initiation and elongation factors from biochemical studies in mammalian cells, and from mutation analysis in lower organisms, little was known until recently about the effects that mutations in these factors...

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