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SUBMITTER: Aktas BH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4466658 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aktas Bertal H BH Bordelois Paula P Peker Selen S Merajver Sophia S Halperin Jose A JA
Oncotarget 20150301 9
Most sporadic breast and ovarian cancers express low levels of the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA1. The BRCA1 gene produces two transcripts, mRNAa and mRNAb. mRNAb, present in breast cancer but not in normal mammary epithelial cells, contains three upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in its 5'UTR and is translationally repressed. Comparable tandem uORFs are characteristically seen in mRNAs whose translational efficiency paradoxically increases when the overall translation rate is decre ...[more]