In molecular biology, initiation factors are proteins that bind to the small subunit of the ribosome during the initiation of translation, a part of protein...
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EIF2 (redirect from Eukaryotic initiation factor-2b)
Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2 (eIF2) is a eukaryotic initiation factor. It is required for most forms of eukaryotic translation initiation. eIF2 mediates...
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Translation (biology) (redirect from Peptide initiation factor)
molecules (including splicing), initiation of these molecules with help of initiation factors (e.g., the initiation can include the circularization step...
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A bacterial initiation factor (IF) is a protein that stabilizes the initiation complex for polypeptide translation. Translation initiation is essential...
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Eukaryotic initiation factors (eIFs) are proteins or protein complexes involved in the initiation phase of eukaryotic translation. These proteins help...
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EIF4E (redirect from Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E)
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E, also known as eIF4E, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF4E gene. Most eukaryotic cellular mRNAs...
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Eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is a multiprotein complex that functions during the initiation phase of eukaryotic translation. It is essential...
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factor (σ factor or specificity factor) is a protein needed for initiation of transcription in bacteria. It is a bacterial transcription initiation factor...
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Eukaryotic initiation factor 4F (eIF4F) is a heterotrimeric protein complex that binds the 5' cap of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to promote eukaryotic translation...
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Eukaryotic translation (redirect from Cap-dependent initiation)
phases: initiation, elongation, termination, and recapping. Translation initiation is the process by which the ribosome and its associated factors bind to...
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 (also known as 4E-BP1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF4EBP1 gene. inhibits...
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Bacterial initiation factor 1 is a bacterial initiation factor. IF1 associates with the 30S ribosomal subunit in the A site and prevents an aminoacyl-tRNA...
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 subunit 1 (eIF2α) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2S1 gene. The protein encoded by this gene...
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cellular initiation factor proteins involved in the translation of transcribed mRNA at the ribosome. The inhibition of these initiation factors prevents...
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2A (eIF2A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2A gene. The eIF2A protein is not to be confused...
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molecular biology, translation initiation factor IF-3 (gene infC) is one of the three factors required for the initiation of protein biosynthesis in bacteria...
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proteins. This domain is found at the C-terminus of several translation Initiation factors. It was first detected at the very C-termini of the yeast protein...
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Archaeal initiation factors are proteins that are used during the translation step of protein synthesis in archaea. The principal functions these proteins...
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methionine—can serve as a start codon and, along with sequences such as an initiation factor, initiates translation. In rare instances, start codons in the standard...
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DEAD box (section Translation initiation)
related to Ded1 plays a part in translation initiation by interacting with eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2). DDX3X DEAD/DEAH box helicase RNA helicase...
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Translational regulation (section Initiation)
expression. Initiation is also regulated by proteins known as initiation factors which provide kinetic assistance to the binding between the initiation codon...
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are stalled translation pre-initiation complexes associated with 40S ribosomal subunits, translation initiation factors, poly(A)+ mRNA and RNA-binding...
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allows for translation initiation in a cap-independent manner, as part of the greater process of protein synthesis. Initiation of eukaryotic translation...
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Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community...
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Bacterial initiation factor-2 is a bacterial initiation factor. IF2 binds to an initiator tRNA and controls the entry of tRNA onto the ribosome. IF2, bound...
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cardiovascular disease, and physical inactivity is an independent risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease. Low levels of physical exercise...
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EIF4G (redirect from Eukaryotic initiation factor 4G)
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4 G (eIF4G) is a protein involved in eukaryotic translation initiation and is a component of the eIF4F cap-binding...
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 1A, X-chromosomal (eIF1A) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF1AX gene. This gene encodes an essential...
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which results in that initiation factors of translation can not bind to that site. Two such molecules, that impedes initiation factors, are CPEB and maskin...
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 subunit C like is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF3CL gene. The protein encoded by this gene...
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