Functional 5′ UTR mRNA structures in eukaryotic translation regulation and how to find them

K Leppek, R Das, M Barna - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
RNA molecules can fold into intricate shapes that can provide an additional layer of control
of gene expression beyond that of their sequence. In this Review, we discuss the current …

Stress granules and processing bodies in translational control

P Ivanov, N Kedersha… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Stress granules (SGs) and processing bodies (PBs) are non-membrane-enclosed RNA
granules that dynamically sequester translationally inactive messenger ribonucleoprotein …

G3BP–Caprin1–USP10 complexes mediate stress granule condensation and associate with 40S subunits

N Kedersha, MD Panas, CA Achorn, S Lyons… - Journal of Cell …, 2016 - rupress.org
Mammalian stress granules (SGs) contain stalled translation preinitiation complexes that are
assembled into discrete granules by specific RNA-binding proteins such as G3BP. We now …

Targeting the translation machinery in cancer

M Bhat, N Robichaud, L Hulea, N Sonenberg… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Dysregulation of mRNA translation is a frequent feature of neoplasia. Many oncogenes and
tumour suppressors affect the translation machinery, making aberrant translation a …

[HTML][HTML] Stereodivergent total synthesis of rocaglaol initiated by synergistic dual-metal-catalyzed asymmetric allylation of benzofuran-3 (2H)-one

Y Xu, H Wang, Z Yang, Y Zhou, Y Liu, X Feng - Chem, 2022 - cell.com
The stereodivergent total synthesis of all stereoisomers of bioactive natural compounds to
enable complete evaluation of stereochemical structure-activity relationships is highly …

Translational control of tumor immune escape via the eIF4F–STAT1–PD-L1 axis in melanoma

M Cerezo, R Guemiri, S Druillennec, I Girault… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Preventing the immune escape of tumor cells by blocking inhibitory checkpoints, such as the
interaction between programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) and programmed death-1 (PD-1) …

RNA G-quadruplexes cause eIF4A-dependent oncogene translation in cancer

AL Wolfe, K Singh, Y Zhong, P Drewe, VK Rajasekhar… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The translational control of oncoprotein expression is implicated in many cancers. Here we
report an eIF4A RNA helicase-dependent mechanism of translational control that contributes …

Targeting the eIF4F translation initiation complex: a critical nexus for cancer development

J Pelletier, J Graff, D Ruggero, N Sonenberg - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Elevated protein synthesis is an important feature of many cancer cells and often arises as a
consequence of increased signaling flux channeled to eukaryotic initiation factor 4F (eIF4F) …

Broad-spectrum antiviral activity of the eIF4A inhibitor silvestrol against corona-and picornaviruses

C Müller, FW Schulte, K Lange-Grünweller… - Antiviral research, 2018 - Elsevier
Coronaviruses (CoV) and picornaviruses are plus-strand RNA viruses that use 5′ cap-
dependent and cap-independent strategies, respectively, for viral mRNA translation …

eIF4F is a nexus of resistance to anti-BRAF and anti-MEK cancer therapies

L Boussemart, H Malka-Mahieu, I Girault, D Allard… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract In BRAF (V600)-mutant tumours, most mechanisms of resistance to drugs that target
the BRAF and/or MEK kinases rely on reactivation of the RAS–RAF–MEK–ERK mitogen …