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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2019

Toward a Kinetic Understanding of Eukaryotic Translation.

Masaaki Sokabe, Christopher S Fraser

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. RiboScreenBiomedicines · 2026
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  2. Remodeling of mRNA by eIF4F in human translation initiation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. A ribosomal kinetic checkpoint governs selective mRNA recruitment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. eIF1 and eIF5 dynamically control translation start site fidelity.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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  15. A dynamic compositional equilibrium governs mRNA recognition by eIF3.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Masaaki SokabeDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616.
Christopher S FraserDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616.

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 eukaryotic translation pathway has been studied for more than four decades, but the molecular mechanisms that regulate each stage of the pathway are not completely defined. This is in part because we have very little understanding of the kinetic framework for the assembly and disassembly of pathway intermediates. Steps of the pathway are thought to occur in the subsecond to second time frame, but most assays to monitor these events require minutes to hours to complete. Understanding translational control in sufficient detail will therefore require the development of assays that can precisely monitor the kinetics of the translation pathway in real time. Here, we describe the translation pathway from the perspective of its kinetic parameters, discuss advances that are helping us move toward the goal of a rigorous kinetic understanding, and highlight some of the challenges that remain.

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EukaryotaEukaryotic Initiation Factor-4FGene Expression RegulationProtein BiosynthesisRNA, MessengerEukaryotic Initiation Factor-4FRNA, Messenger

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PMID29959192
PMCPMC6360857

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