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ReviewBiochimie2015

Quantitative studies of mRNA recruitment to the eukaryotic ribosome.

Christopher S Fraser

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Review in Biochimie, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. RiboScreenBiomedicines · 2026
    Review
  2. Remodeling of mRNA by eIF4F in human translation initiation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
    Article
  3. Dynamics and Regulation of mRNA Cap Recognition by Human eIF4F.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  10. The alternative proteome in neurobiology.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Toward a Kinetic Understanding of Eukaryotic Translation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2019
    Review
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Dynamics of IRES-mediated translation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017
    Review
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  18. eIF4F: a retrospective.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Christopher S FraserDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: csfraser@ucdavis.edu.

Funding

The mechanism of mRNA recruitment to the human ribosome.R01GM092927 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI FRASER, CHRISTOPHER S · 2010 to 2022
$4.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM092927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process of peptide bond synthesis by ribosomes is conserved between species, but the initiation step differs greatly between the three kingdoms of life. This is illustrated by the evolution of roughly an order of magnitude more initiation factor mass found in humans compared with bacteria. Eukaryotic initiation of translation is comprised of a number of sub-steps: (i) recruitment of an mRNA and initiator methionyl-tRNA to the 40S ribosomal subunit; (ii) migration of the 40S subunit along the 5' UTR to locate the initiation codon; and (iii) recruitment of the 60S subunit to form the 80S initiation complex. Although the mechanism and regulation of initiation has been studied for decades, many aspects of the pathway remain unclear. In this review, I will focus discussion on what is known about the mechanism of mRNA selection and its recruitment to the 40S subunit. I will summarize how the 43S preinitiation complex (PIC) is formed and stabilized by interactions between its components. I will discuss what is known about the mechanism of mRNA selection by the eukaryotic initiation factor 4F (eIF4F) complex and how the selected mRNA is recruited to the 43S PIC. The regulation of this process by secondary structure located in the 5' UTR of an mRNA will also be discussed. Finally, I present a possible kinetic model with which to explain the process of mRNA selection and recruitment to the eukaryotic ribosome.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsAnimalsCodon, InitiatorEukaryotic Initiation FactorsGene Expression RegulationHumansPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalRibosomesRNA, MessengerRNA TransportCodon, InitiatorEukaryotic Initiation FactorsRNA, Messenger43S PICeIF4FmRNA recruitment

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PMID25742741
PMCPMC4458453

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