The regulation of protein translation and its implications for cancer

P Song, F Yang, H Jin, X Wang - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2021 - nature.com
In addition to the deregulation of gene transcriptions and post-translational protein
modifications, the aberrant translation from mRNAs to proteins plays an important role in the …

The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance

L Fabbri, A Chakraborty, C Robert, S Vagner - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Translational control of mRNAs during gene expression allows cells to promptly and
dynamically adapt to a variety of stimuli, including in neoplasia in response to aberrant …

Mechanisms governing the control of mRNA translation

M Livingstone, E Atas, A Meller, N Sonenberg - Physical biology, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The translation of cellular mRNA to protein is a tightly controlled process often deregulated
in diseases such as cancer. Furthering our understanding of mRNA structural elements and …

The role of translation control in tumorigenesis and its therapeutic implications

Y Xu, D Ruggero - Annual Review of Cancer Biology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
As a convergent mechanism downstream of most oncogenic signals, control of mRNA
translation has emerged as a key driver in establishing and tuning gene expression at …

Translation initiation in cancer: a novel target for therapy

F Meric, KK Hunt - Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 2002 - AACR
Translation initiation is regulated in response to nutrient availability and mitogenic
stimulation and is coupled with cell cycle progression and cell growth. Several alterations in …

Translation acrobatics: how cancer cells exploit alternate modes of translational initiation

A Sriram, J Bohlen, AA Teleman - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
Recent work has brought to light many different mechanisms of translation initiation that
function in cells in parallel to canonical cap‐dependent initiation. This has important …

Translational control in cancer

N Robichaud, N Sonenberg… - Cold Spring …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins is a key event in the regulation of
gene expression. This is especially true in the cancer setting, as many oncogenes and …

Translation regulation as a therapeutic target in cancer

M Grzmil, BA Hemmings - Cancer research, 2012 - AACR
Protein synthesis is a vital cellular process that regulates growth and metabolism. It is
controlled via signaling networks in response to environmental changes, including the …

Translational control in cancer

D Silvera, SC Formenti, RJ Schneider - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2010 - nature.com
Remarkable progress has been made in defining a new understanding of the role of mRNA
translation and protein synthesis in human cancer. Translational control is a crucial …

More than just scanning: the importance of cap-independent mRNA translation initiation for cellular stress response and cancer

R Lacerda, J Menezes, L Romão - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The scanning model for eukaryotic mRNA translation initiation states that the small
ribosomal subunit, along with initiation factors, binds at the cap structure at the 5′ end of …