Materials for March 28, 2007:

Morris, D. R.  (1997) cis-Acting mRNA Structures in Gene-Specific Translational Control.  In "Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation" (Harford, J. B., and Morris, D. R., eds.), Wiley-Liss, Inc., New York, pages 165-180.

Gebauer, F., and Hentze, M.W. (2004) Molecular mechanisms of translational control. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5, 827-835.

Morris, D.R., and Geballe, A.P. (2000) Upstream Open Reading Frames as Regulators of mRNA Translation. Mol. Cell. Biol. 20, 8635-42.

Nelson, P., et al. (2003) The microRNA world: small is mighty. Trends Biochem. Sci. 28, 534-540.

Cho, P.F., F.Poulin, Y.A.Cho-Park, I.B.Cho-Park, J.D.Chicoine, P.Lasko, and N.Sonenberg. (2005) A New Paradigm for Translational Control: Inhibition via 5'-3' mRNA Tethering by Bicoid and the eIF4E Cognate 4EHP. Cell 121, 411-423.

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