INITIATION OF MAMMALIAN PROTEIN-SYNTHESIS .1. PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 7 INITIATION-FACTORS
INITIATION OF MAMMALIAN PROTEIN-SYNTHESIS .1. PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 7 INITIATION-FACTORS
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(77)90268-6
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
STAEHELIN, T
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作者:
SCHREIER, MH;ERNI, B;STAEHELIN, T
Protein factors (7) were purified from rabbit reticulocytes, all of which are presumed to be involved in initiation of mammalian protein synthesis. They are termed eIF-1, eIF-2, eIF-3, eIF4A, eIf-4B, eIF-4C and e-IF-5. The purification from the KCl was of crude ribosomes involves fractionation with amononium sulfate, ion-exchange chromatography and separation by size. The operational definitition of an initiation factor was its requirement for translation of natural messenger RNA (globin mRNA) in a highly purified and fractionated system using completely defined elongation components, i.e. aminoacyl-tRNA, the 2 elongation factors EF-1 and EF-2, and GTP. By the same criterion ATP was shown to be required for initiation. Initiation factors were purified to homogeneity with the exception of eIF-4B, which was 60-70% pure. They were characterized physically by sucrose gradient centrifugation and by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. With the exception of eIF-2 and eIF-3, they consist of single polypeptide chains ranging in MW from 15,000 (eIF-1) to about 160,000 (eIF-5). The factor eIF-2 has 3 subunits of about 35,000, 50,000 and 55,000 MW. The factor eIF-3 appears to be homogeneous as judged by gel electrophoresis in non-dissociating conditions and sedimentation analysis. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate reveals at least 9 subunits ranging in MW from about 35,000-160,000. Initiation complexes (mRNA.cntdot.Met-tRNAf.cntdot.80 S [Svedberg] ribosome), made in the presence of the 7 initiation factors, ATP and GTP were isolated on a sucrose gradient and shown to be fully active in polypeptide chain elongation when supplied with aminoacyl-tRNA, the 2 elongation factors and GTP.