Volume 13 Issue 2, February 2006
Yama is the God of Death revered in Tibetan Buddhism. While his western counterpart, The Grim Reaper, is typically personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe, Yama has different manifestations, one of which is shown here (photo courtesy of R. Mann). The protein Reaper activates apoptotic proteases and is involved in translation inhibition. Colon-Ramos et al. show that Reaper directly associates with the ribosomal 40S subunit and probably interferes with its recognition of the start codon. pp 103-111
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