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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2019

Noncanonical Translation Initiation in Eukaryotes.

Thaddaeus Kwan, Sunnie R Thompson

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. IRES-Mediated Translation: Expanding the Toolkits of RNA Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. Annexin, a Protein for All Seasons: From Calcium Dependent Membrane Metabolism to RNA Recognition.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  16. Ribosomal protein S25 promotes cell cycle entry for a productive BK polyomavirus infection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  20. Stress response regulation of mRNA translation: Implications for antioxidant enzyme expression in cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thaddaeus KwanDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294.
Sunnie R ThompsonDepartment of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vast majority of eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs) initiate translation through a canonical, cap-dependent mechanism requiring a free 5' end and 5' cap and several initiation factors to form a translationally active ribosome. Stresses such as hypoxia, apoptosis, starvation, and viral infection down-regulate cap-dependent translation during which alternative mechanisms of translation initiation prevail to express proteins required to cope with the stress, or to produce viral proteins. The diversity of noncanonical initiation mechanisms encompasses a broad range of strategies and cellular cofactors. Herein, we provide an overview and, whenever possible, a mechanistic understanding of the various noncanonical mechanisms of initiation used by cells and viruses. Despite many unanswered questions, recent advances have propelled our understanding of the scope, diversity, and mechanisms of alternative initiation.

Indexed as

Protein BiosynthesisEukaryotaInternal Ribosome Entry SitesProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalRNA CapsRNA, MessengerInternal Ribosome Entry SitesRNA CapsRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID29959190
PMCPMC6442200
OpenAlexW2811117641

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Registered trials

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