"5' Untranslated Regions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The sequence at the 5' end of the messenger RNA that does not code for product. This sequence contains the ribosome binding site and other transcription and translation regulating sequences.
| Descriptor ID |
D020121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D13.444.735.544.875.885 D13.444.735.790.878.885 G05.360.340.024.220.880.885 G05.360.340.024.340.137.910.885
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| Concept/Terms |
5' Untranslated Regions- 5' Untranslated Regions
- 5' Untranslated Region
- Region, 5' Untranslated
- Regions, 5' Untranslated
- Untranslated Region, 5'
- Untranslated Regions, 5'
- 5'UTR
- 5'UTRs
- Leader Sequences, mRNA
- Leader Sequence, mRNA
- Sequence, mRNA Leader
- Sequences, mRNA Leader
- mRNA Leader Sequence
- mRNA Leader Sequences
- 5' UTR
- 5' UTRs
- UTR, 5'
- UTRs, 5'
- Leader mRNA Sequences
- Leader mRNA Sequence
- Sequence, Leader mRNA
- Sequences, Leader mRNA
- mRNA Sequence, Leader
- mRNA Sequences, Leader
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| 2004 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
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| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "5' Untranslated Regions" by people in Profiles.
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The IFIT2-IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5' untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Nov; 10(11):2934-2948.
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Deletions in the CDKL5 5' untranslated region lead to CDKL5 deficiency disorder. Am J Med Genet A. 2025 Jan; 197(1):e63843.
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Control of mammalian gene expression by modulation of polyA signal cleavage at 5' UTR. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Sep; 42(9):1454-1466.
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Global 5'-UTR RNA structure regulates translation of a SERPINA1 mRNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 09 23; 50(17):9689-9704.
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miR760 regulates ATXN1 levels via interaction with its 5' untranslated region. Genes Dev. 2020 09 01; 34(17-18):1147-1160.
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RNA base-pairing complexity in living cells visualized by correlated chemical probing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 12 03; 116(49):24574-24582.
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FGFR1-Activated Translation of WNT Pathway Components with Structured 5' UTRs Is Vulnerable to Inhibition of EIF4A-Dependent Translation Initiation. Cancer Res. 2018 08 01; 78(15):4229-4240.
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Genome-wide identification and differential analysis of translational initiation. Nat Commun. 2017 11 23; 8(1):1749.
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An RNA structure-mediated, posttranscriptional model of human a-1-antitrypsin expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 11 21; 114(47):E10244-E10253.
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Homozygous deletion of RAG1, RAG2 and 5' region TRAF6 causes severe immune suppression and atypical osteopetrosis. Clin Genet. 2017 Jun; 91(6):902-907.