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Emerging links between initiation of translation and human diseases

Marilyn Kozak. Mamm Genome. 2002 Aug.

Abstract

Some diseases are caused by mutations that perturb the initiation step of translation by changing the context around the AUG(START) codon or introducing upstream AUG codons. The scanning mechanism provides a framework for understanding the effects of these and other structural changes in mRNAs derived from oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and other key regulatory genes. In mRNAs from mutated as well as normal genes, translation sometimes initiates from an internal AUG codon. Sanctioned mechanisms that allow this, including leaky scanning and reinitiation, are discussed. Thrombopoietin mRNA is an example in which translation normally initiates from an internal position via an inefficient reinitiation mechanism. Mutations that restructure this mRNA in ways that elevate production of thrombopoietin cause hereditary thrombocythemia, demonstrating that some mRNAs are designed deliberately with upstream AUG codons to preclude efficient translation and thus to prevent harmful overproduction of potent proteins. While upstream AUG codons in certain mRNAs thus play an important regulatory role, the frequency of upstream AUG codons tends to be exaggerated when cDNA sequences are compiled and analyzed. Because the discovery of mutations that perturb translation usually begins with cDNA analysis, some misunderstandings vis-a-vis the interpretation of cDNA sequences are discussed.

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