Protein synthesis initiation in eukaryotic cells

WC Merrick, GD Pavitt - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
This review summarizes our current understanding of the major pathway for the initiation
phase of protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells, with a focus on recent advances. We describe …

Roadblocks and resolutions in eukaryotic translation

AP Schuller, R Green - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2018 - nature.com
During protein synthesis, ribosomes encounter many roadblocks, the outcomes of which are
largely determined by substrate availability, amino acid features and reaction kinetics …

Noncoding translation mitigation

JS Kesner, Z Chen, P Shi, AO Aparicio, MR Murphy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Translation is pervasive outside of canonical coding regions, occurring in long noncoding
RNAs, canonical untranslated regions and introns,,–, especially in ageing …

ALS mutations of FUS suppress protein translation and disrupt the regulation of nonsense-mediated decay

M Kamelgarn, J Chen, L Kuang, H Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease
characterized by preferential motor neuron death. Approximately 15% of ALS cases are …

Translational readthrough potential of natural termination codons in eucaryotes–The impact of RNA sequence

M Dabrowski, Z Bukowy-Bieryllo, E Zietkiewicz - RNA biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Termination of protein synthesis is not 100% efficient. A number of natural mechanisms that
suppress translation termination exist. One of them is STOP codon readthrough, the process …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-color single-molecule imaging uncovers extensive heterogeneity in mRNA decoding

S Boersma, D Khuperkar, BMP Verhagen, S Sonneveld… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary mRNA translation is a key step in decoding genetic information. Genetic decoding
is surprisingly heterogeneous because multiple distinct polypeptides can be synthesized …

Exploiting non-canonical translation to identify new targets for T cell-based cancer immunotherapy

CM Laumont, C Perreault - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2018 - Springer
Cryptic MHC I-associated peptides (MAPs) are produced via two mechanisms: translation of
protein-coding genes in non-canonical reading frames and translation of allegedly non …

Selective translation complex profiling reveals staged initiation and co-translational assembly of initiation factor complexes

S Wagner, A Herrmannová, V Hronová, S Gunišová… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Translational control targeting the initiation phase is central to the regulation of gene
expression. Understanding all of its aspects requires substantial technological …

Mechanism and Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

TE Dever, TG Kinzy, GD Pavitt - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we provide an overview of protein synthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae. The mechanism of protein synthesis is well conserved between yeast and other …

Translation of small downstream ORFs enhances translation of canonical main open reading frames

Q Wu, M Wright, MM Gogol, WD Bradford… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
In addition to canonical open reading frames (ORFs), thousands of translated small ORFs
(containing less than 100 codons) have been identified in untranslated mRNA regions …