International symposium on protein synthesis Summary of Fogarty Center‐NIH Workshop held in Bethesda, Maryland on 18–20 October, 1976

A uniform nomenclature for the initiation factors involved in eukaryotic protein synthesis was approved and is listed in table 1. The function(s) of the individual factors is discussed in section 3. An effort to develop a uniform nomenclature for eukaryotic ribosomal proteins is described in section 6.