"Codon, Initiator" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A codon that directs initiation of protein translation (TRANSLATION, GENETIC) by stimulating the binding of initiator tRNA (RNA, TRANSFER, MET). In prokaryotes, the codons AUG or GUG can act as initiators while in eukaryotes, AUG is the only initiator codon.
| Descriptor ID |
D018387
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D13.444.735.544.355.225 G05.360.335.355.225 G05.360.340.024.340.137.190.225
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| Concept/Terms |
Codon, Initiator- Codon, Initiator
- Codons, Initiator
- Initiator Codons
- Initiator Codon
- Start Codon
- Codon, Start
- Codons, Start
- Start Codons
- Codon, Initiation
- Codons, Initiation
- Initiation Codon
- Initiation Codons
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Codon, Initiator" by people in Profiles.
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Benito JB, Porter ML, Niemiller ML. Comparative mitogenomic analysis of subterranean and surface amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with special reference to the family Crangonyctidae. BMC Genomics. 2024 Mar 20; 25(1):298.
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Xiang Y, Huang W, Tan L, Chen T, He Y, Irving PS, Weeks KM, Zhang QC, Dong X. Pervasive downstream RNA hairpins dynamically dictate start-codon selection. Nature. 2023 Sep; 621(7978):423-430.
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Shung CY, Sunter G. Regulation of Tomato golden mosaic virus AL2 and AL3 gene expression by a conserved upstream open reading frame. Virology. 2009 Jan 20; 383(2):310-8.