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Secondary structure and the role in translation initiation of the 5'-terminal region of p53 mRNA.
Biochemistry - 23 Aug 2011
Błaszczyk Leszek, Ciesiołka Jerzy
Abstract excerpt
The p53 protein is one of the major factors involved in cell cycle control, DNA repair, and induction of apoptosis. We determined the secondary structure of the 5'-terminal region of p53 mRNA that includes two major translation initiation codons AUG1 and AUG2, responsible for the synthesis of p53 and its N-truncated isoform ΔN-p53. It turned out that a part of the coding sequence was involved in the folding of...
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