Mnt IRES

Mnt IRES
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of IRES_mnt
Identifiers
Symbol IRES_mnt
Rfam RF00457
Other data
RNA type Cis-reg; IRES
Domain(s) Eukaryota
GO 0043022
SO 0000243

The Mnt internal ribosome entry site (IRES) is an RNA element. Mnt is a transcriptional repressor related to the Myc/Mad family of transcription factors. It is thought that this IRES allows efficient Mnt synthesis when cap-dependent translation initiation is reduced.[1]

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References

  1. Stoneley, M; Spencer JP; Wright SC (2001). "An internal ribosome entry segment in the 5' untranslated region of the mnt gene". Oncogene. 20 (7): 893897. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1204157. PMID 11314024.

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