"N-Formylmethionine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Effective in the initiation of protein synthesis. The initiating methionine residue enters the ribosome as N-formylmethionyl tRNA. This process occurs in Escherichia coli and other bacteria as well as in the mitochondria of eucaryotic cells.
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D009239
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.886.030.676.450 D12.125.166.676.450
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Kreutzer DL, Desai U, Orr W, Showell H, Ward PA. Induction of acute inflammatory reactions in lung following intrapulmonary instillation of preformed chemotactic peptides and purified complement components. Chest. 1979 Feb; 75(2 Suppl):259-62.