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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2011

Translation initiation: variations in the mechanism can be anticipated.

Naglis Malys, John E G McCarthy

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
4.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Cap-Independent mRNA Translation in Germ Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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  9. Protein Synthesis Initiation in Eukaryotic Cells.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2018
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  15. A researcher's guide to the galaxy of IRESs.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Naglis MalysManchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, UK. n.malys@manchester.ac.uk
John E G McCarthy
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/C008219/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E003192/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E003729/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E00640X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E011888/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E024181/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F01838X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Translation initiation is a critical step in protein synthesis. Previously, two major mechanisms of initiation were considered as essential: prokaryotic, based on SD interaction; and eukaryotic, requiring cap structure and ribosomal scanning. Although discovered decades ago, cap-independent translation has recently been acknowledged as a widely spread mechanism in viruses, which may take place in some cellular mRNA translations. Moreover, it has become evident that translation can be initiated on the leaderless mRNA in all three domains of life. New findings demonstrate that other distinguishable types of initiation exist, including SD-independent in Bacteria and Archaea, and various modifications of 5' end-dependent and internal initiation mechanisms in Eukarya. Since translation initiation has developed through the loss, acquisition, and modification of functional elements, all of which have been elevated by competition with viral translation in a large number of organisms of different complexity, more variation in initiation mechanisms can be anticipated.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionVirus Physiological PhenomenaArchaeaBacterial Physiological PhenomenaEukaryotaModels, BiologicalPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalRibosome SubunitsRNA, MessengerRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID21076851
PMCPMC11115079
OpenAlexW2081666563

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