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Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3

"Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A multisubunit eukaryotic initiation factor that contains at least 8 distinct polypeptides. It plays a role in recycling of ribosomal subunits to the site of transcription initiation by promoting the dissociation of non-translating ribosomal subunits. It also is involved in promoting the binding of a ternary complex of EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GTP; and INITIATOR TRNA to the 40S ribosomal subunit.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2016
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.