Table 4.
5' UTR sequences with experimentally proved IRES elements
| UTRdb* | EMBL† | Gene description | UTRsite | Reference |
| 5HSA004100 | J04513 | Human FGF-2 | Y | [54] |
| 5HSA007092 | X87949 | Human BiP | Y | [55] |
| 5DVI000022 | M95825 | Drosophila Antennapedia | [56] | |
| 5HSA007484 | M12783 | Human PDGF2/c-sis | Y | [57] |
| 5HSA011699 | AF025841 | Acute myeloid leukemia 1 protein (AML1) | Y | [58] |
| 5HSA000138 | AF013263 | Apoptotic protease activating factor 1 (Apaf-1) | [59] | |
| 5HSA001903 | AF006822 | Myelin transcription factor 2 (MYT2) | [60] | |
| 5CGR000096 | M17169 | Chinese hamster glucose-regulated protein GRP78 | Y | [30] |
| 5BTA000471 | M13440 | Bovine basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) | Y | [30] |
| 5RNO001555 | M22427 | Rat basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) | Y | [30] |
| 5HSA015336 | D14838 | Human FGF-9 | [30] | |
| 5HSA005291 | M17446 | Human Kaposi's sarcoma oncogene (fibroblast growth factor) | [30] |
The elements recognized by the IRES detection algorithm in UTRsite [47,48,50] are marked 'Y'. Accession numbers in the *UTRdb [47] and †EMBL databases [52].