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  • Open Access
2 Citations
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16 November 2025

Translation-based Video Synthesis (TVS) has emerged as a transformative technology that enables sophisticated manipulation and generation of dynamic visual content. This comprehensive survey systematically examines the evolution of TVS methodologies,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer and Multimedia Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,381 Views
20 Pages

Translation revision is a relevant topic for translator training and research. Recent technological developments justify increased focus on embedding speech technologies—speech synthesis (text-to-speech) and speech recognition (speech-to-text)&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer-Aided Translation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,267 Views
11 Pages

The Escherichia coli (E. coli)-based protein synthesis using recombinant elements (PURE) system is a cell-free protein synthesis system reconstituted from purified factors essential for E. coli translation. The PURE system is widely used for basic an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Versatility of Protein Synthesis in a Test Tube)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,244 Views
15 Pages

Duck IFNγ Restricts Duck Tembusu Virus Replication by Disrupting Viral RNA Synthesis/Translation

  • Juan Huang,
  • Xinyue Li,
  • Yuxin Lu,
  • Shun Chen,
  • Bin Tian,
  • Renyong Jia and
  • Anchun Cheng

11 February 2026

Duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV), an emerging Flavivirus, is a major avian pathogen that imposes enormous economic losses on the global duck industry, necessitating urgent development of effective countermeasures. Although Interferon-gamma (IFNγ) is...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Biomedical Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,833 Views
23 Pages

Translational regulation plays a pivotal role in cardiac gene expression, influencing protein synthesis in response to physiological and pathological stimuli. Although transcription regulates gene expression, translation ultimately determines protein...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Role of Translation Machinery and Translational Control in the Cardiovascular System)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,454 Views
25 Pages

27 November 2018

At the end of my doctoral studies, in 1988, I published a review article on the major steps of transcription and translation during the mammalian reovirus multiplication cycle, a topic that still fascinates me 30 years later. It is in the nature of s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue CSV2018: The 2nd symposium of the Canadian Society for Virology (CSV))
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,369 Views
12 Pages

Translation Stress Regulates Ribosome Synthesis and Cell Proliferation

  • Sivakumar Vadivel Gnanasundram and
  • Robin Fåhraeus

27 November 2018

Ribosome and protein synthesis are major metabolic events that control cellular growth and proliferation. Impairment in ribosome biogenesis pathways and mRNA translation is associated with pathologies such as cancer and developmental disorders. Proce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,560 Views
16 Pages

Unexpected Role of Sterol Synthesis in RNA Stability and Translation in Leishmania

  • Zemfira N. Karamysheva,
  • Samrat Moitra,
  • Andrea Perez,
  • Sumit Mukherjee,
  • Elena B. Tikhonova,
  • Andrey L. Karamyshev and
  • Kai Zhang

Leishmania parasites are trypanosomatid protozoans that cause leishmaniasis affecting millions of people worldwide. Sterols are important components of the plasma and organellar membranes. They also serve as precursors for the synthesis of signaling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parasitic Infection and Immunity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,421 Views
21 Pages

Analysis of the Stimulative Effect of Arginine on Translation Initiation of Protein Synthesis in Skeletal Muscle

  • Daisuke Suzuki,
  • Yuki Takami,
  • Yusuke Sato,
  • Yuka Toyoshima and
  • Fumiaki Yoshizawa

17 September 2025

Background: Arginine (Arg) is thought to potentially stimulate protein synthesis. Although the detailed mechanism by which Arg regulates protein synthesis is not fully known, it is believed to occur primarily through the mechanistic target of rapamyc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Protein Requirements and New Findings Regarding the Factors That Influence Them)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
1,843 Views
6 Pages

1 April 2017

Salient findings and interpretations from the canimpact clinical cancer research study are visually represented in two synthesis maps for the purpose of communicating an integrated presentation of the study to clinical cancer researchers and policyma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,884 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2014

Qβ replicase is a unique RNA polymerase complex, comprising Qβ virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (the catalytic β-subunit) and three host-derived factors: translational elongation factor (EF) -Tu, EF-Ts and ribosomal protein S1. For almost f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functions of Transfer RNAs)
  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
20,216 Views
18 Pages

Therapeutic Peptides: Recent Advances in Discovery, Synthesis, and Clinical Translation

  • Bingyi Zheng,
  • Xueting Wang,
  • Meizhai Guo and
  • Chi-Meng Tzeng

In recent decades, peptide-based therapeutics have undergone transformative advancements driven by breakthroughs in production, modification, and analytical technologies. Innovations in chemical and biological synthesis, coupled with novel design and...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pharmacology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,858 Views
16 Pages

Human Cytomegalovirus Strategies to Maintain and Promote mRNA Translation

  • Heather A. Vincent,
  • Benjamin Ziehr and
  • Nathaniel J. Moorman

13 April 2016

mRNA translation requires the ordered assembly of translation initiation factors and ribosomal subunits on a transcript. Host signaling pathways regulate each step in this process to match levels of protein synthesis to environmental cues. In respons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viral Subversion of Stress Responses and Translational Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,749 Views
11 Pages

8 September 2016

Over two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Food fortification is a prominent nutrition intervention to combat such deficiencies; however, its effectiveness, risks, and ethical implications vary depending on the contexts associate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fortification to Combat Micronutrient Deficiencies)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,257 Views
24 Pages

Magnetic Nanoparticles in Theranostics: From Controlled Synthesis and Surface Engineering to Biological Performance and Clinical Translation

  • Gabriel Tolardo Colombo,
  • Ruan Rompato Vieira,
  • Gustavo Sanguino Dias,
  • Marcia Edilaine Lopes Consolaro,
  • Ivair Aparecido dos Santos,
  • Raquel Dosciatti Bini and
  • Luiz Fernando Cotica

The usage of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), particularly iron oxide-based systems such as magnetite (Fe3O4) and maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), has significantly advanced the field of theranostics. These nanoparticles unite therapeutic and diagnostic capa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Review Papers in Nanotheranostics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,670 Views
37 Pages

Control of Translation at the Initiation Phase During Glucose Starvation in Yeast

  • Yoshika Janapala,
  • Thomas Preiss and
  • Nikolay E. Shirokikh

19 August 2019

Glucose is one of the most important sources of carbon across all life. Glucose starvation is a key stress relevant to all eukaryotic cells. Glucose starvation responses have important implications in diseases, such as diabetes and cancer. In yeast,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure, Function and Evolution of the Ribosome)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
8,712 Views
18 Pages

Functional Cyclization of Eukaryotic mRNAs

  • Olga M. Alekhina,
  • Ilya M. Terenin,
  • Sergey E. Dmitriev and
  • Konstantin S. Vassilenko

29 February 2020

The closed-loop model of eukaryotic translation states that mRNA is circularized by a chain of the cap-eIF4E-eIF4G-poly(A)-binding protein (PABP)-poly(A) interactions that brings 5′ and 3′ ends together. This circularization is thought to promote the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Control 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,981 Views
20 Pages

In-Cell Synthesis of Bioorthogonal Alkene Tag S-Allyl-Homocysteine and Its Coupling with Reprogrammed Translation

  • Saba Nojoumi,
  • Ying Ma,
  • Sergej Schwagerus,
  • Christian P. R. Hackenberger and
  • Nediljko Budisa

In this study, we report our initial results on in situ biosynthesis of S-allyl-l-homocysteine (Sahc) by simple metabolic conversion of allyl mercaptan in Escherichia coli, which served as the host organism endowed with a direct sulfhydration pathway...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Expanding and Reprogramming the Genetic Code)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,790 Views
12 Pages

Magnetic Tracking of Protein Synthesis in Microfluidic Environments—Challenges and Perspectives

  • Melanie Wegener,
  • Inga Ennen,
  • Volker Walhorn,
  • Dario Anselmetti,
  • Andreas Hütten and
  • Karl-Josef Dietz

A novel technique to study protein synthesis is proposed that uses magnetic nanoparticles in combination with microfluidic devices to achieve new insights into translational regulation. Cellular protein synthesis is an energy-demanding process which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Nanomagnetics and Magneto-Optical Nanomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,267 Views
14 Pages

C8ORF88: A Novel eIF4E-Binding Protein

  • Lauren Pugsley,
  • Sai Kiran Naineni,
  • Mehdi Amiri,
  • Akiko Yanagiya,
  • Regina Cencic,
  • Nahum Sonenberg and
  • Jerry Pelletier

14 November 2023

Translation initiation in eukaryotes is regulated at several steps, one of which involves the availability of the cap binding protein to participate in cap-dependent protein synthesis. Binding of eIF4E to translational repressors (eIF4E-binding prote...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,577 Views
13 Pages

Acute Oxidative Stress Can Paradoxically Suppress Human NRF2 Protein Synthesis by Inhibiting Global Protein Translation

  • Kaitlin M. Pensabene,
  • Joseph LaMorte,
  • Amanda E. Allender,
  • Janessa Wehr,
  • Prabhjot Kaur,
  • Matthew Savage and
  • Aimee L. Eggler

7 September 2023

The NRF2 transcription factor is a master regulator of the cellular oxidant/electrophile response and a drug target for the prevention/treatment of chronic diseases. A major mechanism of NRF2 activation is its escape from rapid degradation, and newly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oxidative Stress in Various Forms and Efficient Antioxidant Pathways in Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,097 Views
21 Pages

Ionizing Radiation and Translation Control: A Link to Radiation Hormesis?

  • Usha Kabilan,
  • Tyson E. Graber,
  • Tommy Alain and
  • Dmitry Klokov

11 September 2020

Protein synthesis, or mRNA translation, is one of the most energy-consuming functions in cells. Translation of mRNA into proteins is thus highly regulated by and integrated with upstream and downstream signaling pathways, dependent on various transac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Synthesis and Disease)
  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,978 Views
25 Pages

Targeting Protein Synthesis in Colorectal Cancer

  • Stefanie Schmidt,
  • Sarah Denk and
  • Armin Wiegering

21 May 2020

Under physiological conditions, protein synthesis controls cell growth and survival and is strictly regulated. Deregulation of protein synthesis is a frequent event in cancer. The majority of mutations found in colorectal cancer (CRC), including alte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Targeting Therapy for Colon Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,465 Views
17 Pages

eIF4B mRNA Translation Contributes to Cleavage Dynamics in Early Sea Urchin Embryos

  • Florian Pontheaux,
  • Sandrine Boulben,
  • Héloïse Chassé,
  • Agnès Boutet,
  • Fernando Roch,
  • Julia Morales and
  • Patrick Cormier

27 September 2022

During the first steps of sea urchin development, fertilization elicits a marked increase in protein synthesis essential for subsequent cell divisions. While the translation of mitotic cyclin mRNAs is crucial, we hypothesized that additional mRNAs mu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue How the Timing of Biological Processes Is Controlled and Modified at the Molecular and Cellular Level? 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
682 Views
25 Pages

A Microscale Platform for the Comprehensive Analysis of Bacterial Translation Initiation

  • Daria S. Vinogradova,
  • Pavel S. Kasatsky,
  • Zoya A. Spiridonova,
  • Sebastian Leyva,
  • Ana Sanchez-Castro,
  • Katherin Peñaranda,
  • Victor Zegarra,
  • Pablo Soriano,
  • Alena Paleskava and
  • Andrey L. Konevega
  • + 1 author

In prokaryotes, translation initiation orchestrates protein synthesis through a network of dynamic interactions among the ribosome, mRNA, initiator tRNAfMet, and initiation factors (IFs). Traditional approaches that rely on radioactive labeling or su...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,320 Views
17 Pages

Evidence Use in the Development of the Australian Dietary Guidelines: A Qualitative Study

  • Kate Wingrove,
  • Mark A. Lawrence,
  • Cherie Russell and
  • Sarah A. McNaughton

23 October 2021

Dietary guidelines are important nutrition policy reference standards that should be informed by the best available evidence. The types of evidence that are reviewed and the evidence review methods that are used have implications for evidence transla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Community Nutrition: Dietary Patterns and Planetary Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,903 Views
26 Pages

Regulation of mRNA Translation by Hormone Receptors in Breast and Prostate Cancer

  • Jianling Xie,
  • Eric P. Kusnadi,
  • Luc Furic and
  • Luke A. Selth

29 June 2021

Breast and prostate cancer are the second and third leading causes of death amongst all cancer types, respectively. Pathogenesis of these malignancies is characterised by dysregulation of sex hormone signalling pathways, mediated by the estrogen rece...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nuclear Receptors and Cancer)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,053 Views
28 Pages

The first demonstration of wheat germ extract (WGE)-based in vitro translation synthesising a protein from exogenously introduced messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) was published approximately fifty years ago. Since then, there have been numerous cruc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Versatility of Protein Synthesis in a Test Tube)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,527 Views
15 Pages

Analysis and Application of Translation-Enhancing Peptides for Improved Production of Proteins Containing Polyproline

  • Akimichi Yoshino,
  • Riko Shimoji,
  • Yuma Nishikawa,
  • Hideo Nakano and
  • Teruyo Ojima-Kato

3 October 2025

Polyproline residues are well known to induce ribosomal stalling during translation. Our previous work demonstrated that inserting a short translation-enhancing peptide, Ser-Lys-Ile-Lys (SKIK), immediately upstream of such difficult-to-translate sequ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,223 Views
29 Pages

Relevance of Translation Initiation in Diffuse Glioma Biology and its Therapeutic Potential

  • Digregorio Marina,
  • Lombard Arnaud,
  • Lumapat Paul Noel,
  • Scholtes Felix,
  • Rogister Bernard and
  • Coppieters Natacha

29 November 2019

Cancer cells are continually exposed to environmental stressors forcing them to adapt their protein production to survive. The translational machinery can be recruited by malignant cells to synthesize proteins required to promote their survival, even...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Cancers: Glioblastoma)
  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,106 Views
27 Pages

8 January 2021

Ribosomal proteins (RPs) are mostly derived from the energy-consuming enzyme families such as ATP-dependent RNA helicases, AAA-ATPases, GTPases and kinases, and are important structural components of the ribosome, which is a supramolecular ribonucleo...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,304 Views
12 Pages

Measurement and Numerical Modeling of Cell-Free Protein Synthesis: Combinatorial Block-Variants of the PURE System

  • Paolo Carrara,
  • Emiliano Altamura,
  • Francesca D’Angelo,
  • Fabio Mavelli and
  • Pasquale Stano

14 October 2018

Protein synthesis is at the core of bottom-up construction of artificial cellular mimics. Intriguingly, several reports have revealed that when a transcription–translation (TX–TL) kit is encapsulated inside lipid vesicles (or water-in-oil droplets),...

  • Review
  • Open Access
501 Views
38 Pages

Approaches for Studying Context Specificity of Translation Inhibitor Action

  • Ekaterina S. Komarova,
  • Arina A. Nikandrova,
  • Olga A. Dontsova and
  • Petr V. Sergiev

The sequence of messenger RNA (mRNA) not only determines the protein sequence synthesized by a ribosome but also defines the efficiency of this process. Many antibiotics lethal to bacteria inhibit various stages of translation by targeting ribosomal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the HSG-2025 Conference)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,864 Views
15 Pages

9 May 2021

As one of the key requirements for underwater exploration, underwater depth map estimation is of great importance in underwater vision research. Although significant progress has been achieved in the fields of image-to-image translation and depth map...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,497 Views
11 Pages

27 October 2019

Aquaporins are important and well-studied water channel membrane proteins. However, being membrane proteins, sample preparation for functional analysis is tedious and time-consuming. In this paper, we report a new approach for the co-translational in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aquaporins 2019)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,919 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2019

Hypoxia-Inducible Factors (HIFs) play essential roles in the physiological response to low oxygen in all multicellular organisms, while their deregulation is associated with human diseases. HIF levels and activity are primarily controlled by the avai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gene Regulation by HIFs during Hypoxia)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,185 Views
10 Pages

Background: Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a pivotal role in the regulation of chromatin structure and gene expression, making them key targets in structural and epigenetic research. Synthetic histone peptides bearing specific P...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,327 Views
29 Pages

Post-Translational Modifications of PCNA: Guiding for the Best DNA Damage Tolerance Choice

  • Gemma Bellí,
  • Neus Colomina,
  • Laia Castells-Roca and
  • Neus P. Lorite

10 June 2022

The sliding clamp PCNA is a multifunctional homotrimer mainly linked to DNA replication. During this process, cells must ensure an accurate and complete genome replication when constantly challenged by the presence of DNA lesions. Post-translational...

(This article belongs to the Section Fungal Genomics, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,091 Views
25 Pages

Characterization of an Atypical eIF4E Ortholog in Leishmania, LeishIF4E-6

  • Nitin Tupperwar,
  • Rohit Shrivastava,
  • Nofar Baron,
  • Orli Korchev,
  • Irit Dahan and
  • Michal Shapira

24 November 2021

Leishmania parasites are digenetic protists that shuffle between sand fly vectors and mammalian hosts, transforming from flagellated extracellular promastigotes that reside within the intestinal tract of female sand flies to the obligatory intracellu...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Microbiology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
11,715 Views
15 Pages

Translational Control of Secretory Proteins in Health and Disease

  • Andrey L. Karamyshev,
  • Elena B. Tikhonova and
  • Zemfira N. Karamysheva

Secretory proteins are synthesized in a form of precursors with additional sequences at their N-terminal ends called signal peptides. The signal peptides are recognized co-translationally by signal recognition particle (SRP). This interaction leads t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Control 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,781 Views
15 Pages

Cell-Free Protein Synthesis with Fungal Lysates for the Rapid Production of Unspecific Peroxygenases

  • Marina Schramm,
  • Stephanie Friedrich,
  • Kai-Uwe Schmidtke,
  • Jan Kiebist,
  • Paul Panzer,
  • Harald Kellner,
  • René Ullrich,
  • Martin Hofrichter and
  • Katrin Scheibner

30 January 2022

Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs, EC 1.11.2.1) are fungal biocatalysts that have attracted considerable interest for application in chemical syntheses due to their ability to selectively incorporate peroxide-oxygen into non-activated hydrocarbons. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dream Peroxygenases)
  • Review
  • Open Access
99 Citations
14,226 Views
30 Pages

Hsp90: A New Player in DNA Repair?

  • Rosa Pennisi,
  • Paolo Ascenzi and
  • Alessandra Di Masi

16 October 2015

Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is an evolutionary conserved molecular chaperone that, together with Hsp70 and co-chaperones makes up the Hsp90 chaperone machinery, stabilizing and activating more than 200 proteins, involved in protein homeostasis (i.e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue DNA Damage Response)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,293 Views
17 Pages

ER Unfolded Protein Response in Liver In Vivo Is Characterized by Reduced, Not Increased, De Novo Lipogenesis and Cholesterol Synthesis Rates with Uptake of Fatty Acids from Adipose Tissue: Integrated Gene Expression, Translation Rates and Metabolic Fluxes

  • Catherine P. Ward,
  • Lucy Peng,
  • Samuel Yuen,
  • Michael Chang,
  • Rozalina Karapetyan,
  • Edna Nyangau,
  • Hussein Mohammed,
  • Hector Palacios,
  • Naveed Ziari and
  • Marc K. Hellerstein
  • + 4 authors

19 January 2022

The unfolded protein response in the endoplasmic reticulum (UPRER) is involved in a number of metabolic diseases. Here, we characterize UPRER-induced metabolic changes in mouse livers in vivo through metabolic labeling and mass spectrometric analysis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physiological and Pathological Aspects of Unfolded Protein Response 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,926 Views
17 Pages

5 January 2022

A dimensional synthesis of parallel manipulators (PMs) consists of determining the values of the geometric parameters that affect the platform motion so that a useful workspace with assigned sizes can be suitably located in a free-from-singularity re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kinematics and Robot Design IV, KaRD2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,420 Views
13 Pages

13 August 2024

The PTEN tumor suppressor is frequently targeted in tumors and patients with PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS) through nonsense mutations generating premature termination codons (PTC) that may cause the translation of truncated non-functional PTEN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue PTEN: Regulation, Signalling and Targeting in Cancer)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,547 Views
55 Pages

Waste-Derived Sustainable Nanomaterials: Comprehensive Review of Synthesis Advances, Applications and Translational Challenges

  • Mahima Yadav,
  • Jason Hodge,
  • Terrence J. Piva,
  • Moshi Geso,
  • Rod Lynch,
  • Faiza Basheer,
  • William Patterson,
  • Alison Chapman and
  • Rasika M. Samarasinghe

25 June 2026

Waste management presents a major environmental and public health challenge, creating an urgent need for strategies that convert discarded materials into higher-value products. Waste-derived nanoparticles (WDNPs) have gained increasing attention beca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green and Sustainable Nanomaterials for Emerging Pollutant Remediation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,382 Views
19 Pages

Novel N7-Arylmethyl Substituted Dinucleotide mRNA 5′ cap Analogs: Synthesis and Evaluation as Modulators of Translation

  • Radoslaw Wojcik,
  • Marek R. Baranowski,
  • Lukasz Markiewicz,
  • Dorota Kubacka,
  • Marcelina Bednarczyk,
  • Natalia Baran,
  • Anna Wojtczak,
  • Pawel J. Sikorski,
  • Joanna Zuberek and
  • Jacek Jemielity
  • + 1 author

Dinucleotide analogs of the messenger RNA cap (m7GpppN) are useful research tools and have potential applications as translational inhibitors or reagents for modification of in vitro transcribed mRNAs. It has been previously reported that replacing t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue mRNA Therapeutics: A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Katalin Karikó)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,697 Views
15 Pages

Regulation of Translation in the Protozoan Parasite Leishmania

  • Zemfira N. Karamysheva,
  • Sneider Alexander Gutierrez Guarnizo and
  • Andrey L. Karamyshev

Leishmaniasis represents a serious health problem worldwide and drug resistance is a growing concern. Leishmania parasites use unusual mechanisms to control their gene expression. In contrast to many other species, they do not have transcriptional re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Control 2.0)
  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,927 Views
28 Pages

Specialized Ribosomes in Health and Disease

  • Sarah C. Miller,
  • Clinton C. MacDonald,
  • Morgana K. Kellogg,
  • Zemfira N. Karamysheva and
  • Andrey L. Karamyshev

Ribosomal heterogeneity exists within cells and between different cell types, at specific developmental stages, and occurs in response to environmental stimuli. Mounting evidence supports the existence of specialized ribosomes, or specific changes to...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,786 Views
16 Pages

In Escherichia coli, the mRNA transcribed from the main cold-shock gene cspA is a thermosensor, which at low temperature adopts a conformation particularly suitable for translation in the cold. Unlike cspA, its paralogue cspD is expressed only at 37...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translational Control)

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