Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) IRES A

This family represents the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) internal ribosome entry site (IRES) A. VEGF is an endothelial cell mitogen with many crucial functions such as embryogenic development and wound healing. The 5' UTR of VEGF mRNA contains two IRES elements which are able to promote efficient translation at the AUG start codon, this family represents IRES A.^[1]

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) IRES A
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of IRES_VEGF_A
Identifiers
Symbol	IRES_VEGF_A
Rfam	RF00461
Other data
RNA type	Cis-reg; IRES
Domain(s)	Eukaryota
GO	GO:0043022
SO	SO:0000243
PDB structures	PDBe