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Peptide Initiation Factors

Known as: Initiation Factors, Peptide, Translational Initiation Factor, Translation Initiation Factor 
One of several soluble proteins involved in the initiation of protein or RNA synthesis.(On-line Medical Dictionary)
National Institutes of Health

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Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-2BEukaryotic Initiation Factor-4FEukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 5, humanGenetic Translation Process

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IDI2 protein, Hordeum vulgareIF2 protein, archaealLepA protein, E coliaIF-5A

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Biochemical and Molecular Actions of Nutrients Leucine Regulates Translation Initiation in Rat Skeletal Muscle Via Enhanced eIF 4 G Phosphorylation 1 , 2
The BCAA, leucine, stimulates protein synthesis in skeletal muscle in part through enhanced initiation of mRNA translation… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The Translation Initiation Factor eIF3-p48 Subunit Is Encoded byint-6, a Site of Frequent Integration by the Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus Genome*
Translation initiation factor eIF3 is a large, multisubunit protein complex that plays a central role in the pathway of… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Insulin induction of ornithine decarboxylase. Importance of mRNA secondary structure and phosphorylation of eucaryotic initiation factors eIF-4B and eIF-4E.
Review
1991
Review
1991
Interferon-induced and double-stranded RNA-activated enzymes: a specific protein kinase and 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetases.
Treatment of cells with interferon (IFN) results in the induction of two double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated enzymes: a… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Binding of Epstein-Barr virus small RNA EBER-1 to the double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase DAI.
Epstein-Barr virus encodes two small RNAs, EBER-1 and -2, that are abundantly expressed in latently infected cells. Recent… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A yeast activity can substitute for the HeLa cell TATA box factor
Most class B (II) promoter regions from higher eukaryotes contain the TATA box and upstream and enhancer elements1. Both the… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Involvement of eukaryotic initiation factor 4A in the cap recognition process.
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Inhibition of translation by poliovirus: inactivation of a specific initiation factor.
Translation of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) mRNA, like host mRNA translation, is inhibited in cells infected with poliovirus… 
Highly Cited
1973
Highly Cited
1973
Initiation of mammalian protein synthesis: the importance of ribosome and initiation factor quality for the efficiency of in vitro systems.
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Translation of the genetic message. VII. Role of initiation factors in formation of the chain initiation complex with Escherichia coli ribosomes.
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