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ReviewBiochemical Society transactions2025

Ins and outs of IRES elements: function and significance.

Encarnacion Martínez-Salas

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Review in Biochemical Society transactions, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Encarnacion Martínez-SalasCentro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Nicolás Cabrera 1, Madrid , 28049, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8432-5587

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA and proteins are key components of all organisms. Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements are a diverse type of RNA regulatory structural elements that mediate end-independent, internal translation initiation in viral mRNAs and certain cellular mRNAs translated under stress conditions. Notably, viral IRES elements regulate translation initiation via a dynamic, modular RNA structure organization, which serves as the anchoring site for the ribosome guided by RNA-RNA and/or RNA-protein interactions. The implementation of advanced transcriptomics, proteomics, and computational methodologies has facilitated the identification of novel RNAs potentially translated using cap-independent mechanisms, harboring RNA structural elements with distinctive features. Here, we present a summary of the current understanding of IRES elements, focusing on the molecular functions and the RNA-binding proteins regulating IRES activity.

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Internal Ribosome Entry SitesRibosomesAnimalsHumansNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BiosynthesisRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, ViralInternal Ribosome Entry SitesRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerRNA, ViralbioinformaticsIRESRNARNA-binding proteinstranslation initiation

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PMID41151051
PMCPMC12687423

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