tRNA-mRNA mimicry drives translation initiation from a viral IRES.
Costantino, D.A., Pfingsten, J.S., Rambo, R.P., Kieft, J.S.(2008) Nat Struct Mol Biol 15: 57-64
- PubMed: 18157151 
- DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1351
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3B31 - PubMed Abstract: 
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) RNAs initiate protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells by a noncanonical cap-independent mechanism. IRESes are critical for many pathogenic viruses, but efforts to understand their function are complicated by the diversity of IRES sequences as well as by limited high-resolution structural information ...