Mnt IRES

Mnt IRES
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of IRES_mnt
Identifiers
Symbol	IRES_mnt
Rfam	RF00457
Other data
RNA type	Cis-reg; IRES
Domain(s)	Eukaryota
GO	0043022
SO	0000243

The Mnt internal ribosome entry site (IRES) is an RNA element. Mnt is a transcriptional repressor related to the Myc/Mad family of transcription factors. It is thought that this IRES allows efficient Mnt synthesis when cap-dependent translation initiation is reduced.^[1]

See also

• N-myc IRES
• Tobamovirus IRES
• TrkB IRES

References

1. ^ Stoneley, M; Spencer JP, Wright SC (2001). "An internal ribosome entry segment in the 5' untranslated region of the mnt gene". Oncogene 20 (7): 893–897. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1204157. PMID 11314024. 

External links

• Rfam page for Mnt IRES