Review Article
Alternative Mechanisms to Initiate Translation in Eukaryotic mRNAs
Table 2
Distribution of IRES elements in cellular mRNAs.
| Organism | Protein function | IRES name | Reference |
| Mammals | Apoptotic proteins | Apaf-1 | [60] | | XIAP | [56] | | HIAP2/c-IAP1 | [57] | | DAP5 | [58] | | Bcl-2 | [61] | Oncogene | c-myc | [77] | Amino acid starvation | CAT-1 | [46] | Nutrient signaling | INR | [59] | Differentiation | LEF-1 | [65] | | PDGF2 | [66] | Hypoxia | HIF-1a | [50] | | VEGF | [55] | | FGF2 | [53] | Heat shock | BiP | [51] | | BAG-1 | [49] | Cold shock | CIRP | [48] | DNA damage response | p53 | [47] | | SHMT1 | [54] | Mitosis | PITSLREp58 | [50] | | CDK1 | [61] |
| Insects | Apoptotic proteins, | Rpr, hid | [62] | Heat shock | hsp70 | [63] | | grim, skl | | Homeotic protein | Antennapedia | [64] | Insulin signaling | dFoxO | [67] | | dInR | [68] | Alcohol dehydrogenase | Adh-Adhr | [69] |
| Plants | Heat shock | HSP101 | [70] | Alcohol dehydrogenase | ADH | [71] |
| Yeast | Nitrogen assimilation | URE-2 | [72] | glucose starvation | GPR1, NCE102 | [73] | | YMR181a, MSN1 | | | BOI1, FLO8, GIC1 | |
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