"We performed bioinformatics analyses of ESTs and the 3'UTRs of the main transcript splice variants of the translational initiation factor eIF4E1 and its family members eIF4E2 and eIF4E3. We propose to elucidate the minor splice variants of eIF4E2 and eIF4E3 in great detail because they might produce proteins with modified features that fulfill different cellular roles from their major counterparts."xsd:string