“…There is a short, but growing, list of genes containing RNA cis-elements that modulate translation: the transcript for FMR protein (Fragile X mental retardation protein) encodes 5 0 UTR secondary structure, which is sufficiently stable to suppress downstream FMR protein translation (Feng et al, 1995), tissue-specific regulation of fibroblast growth factor 2 translation appears to be dependent on its 5 0 UTR (Creancier et al, 2000), 15-lipoxygenase, fibronectin, lipoprotein lipase, folate receptor-a, interferon-g, transforming growth factor-b1, m-numb and neural nitric-oxide synthase (nNOS), among others (Ostareck et al, 1997;Ranganathan et al, 2000;Galy et al, 2001;Morrisey et al, 2001;Imai et al, 2001;Ben-Asouli et al, 2002). Similarly, vascular endothelial growth factor regulation by hypoxia (Stein et al, 1998) and platelet-derived growth factor 2/c-sis expression that occurs during differentiation (Bernstein et al, 1997) are regulated in this way as well.…”