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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-5-21
pubmed:abstractText
Transport of the essential amino acids arginine and lysine is critical for the survival of mammalian cells. The adaptive response to nutritional stress involves increased translation of the arginine/lysine transporter (cat-1) mRNA via an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) within the mRNA leader. Induction of cat-1 IRES activity requires both translation of a small upstream open reading frame (uORF) within the IRES and phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF2alpha. We show here that translation of the upstream ORF unfolds an inhibitory structure in the mRNA leader, eliciting a conformational change that yields an active IRES. The IRES, whose activity is induced by amino acid starvation, is created by RNA-RNA interactions between the 5' end of the leader and downstream sequences. This study suggests that the structure of the IRES is dynamic and regulation of this RNA structure is a mechanism of translational control.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0092-8674
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
113
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
519-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12757712-5' Untranslated Regions, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Arginine, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Cationic Amino Acid Transporter 1, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Eukaryotic Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Eukaryotic Initiation Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Lysine, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Molecular Structure, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Ribosomes, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:12757712-Tumor Cells, Cultured
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
The zipper model of translational control: a small upstream ORF is the switch that controls structural remodeling of an mRNA leader.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.