Mutation of a conserved CDK site converts a metazoan Elongation Factor 1Bbeta subunit into a replacement for yeast eEF1Balpha |
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Authors: | Pomerening J R Valente L Kinzy T G Jacobs T W |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 269 West Campus Drive, CCSR 3160, Stanford, CA 94305-5174, USA;(2) Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Immunology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;(3) The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA;(4) Department of Plant Biology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1201 West Gregory Drive, 191 Edward R. Madigan Laboratory, Urbana, IL 61801-3838, USA |
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Abstract: | Elongation factor subunit eEF1B (formerly EF-1 in plants and EF-1 in animals) was identified and cloned in a screen for proteins from pea that interact with a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK). CDKs are enzymes that regulate progression through meiotic and mitotic cell cycles in eukaryotes. eEF1B and the related protein eEF1B (formerly EF-1 ' in plants and EF-1 in animals and fungi) can catalyze GTP/GDP exchange on the G-protein eEF1A (formerly EF-1 in plants, animals and fungi) during the elongation phase of protein synthesis in eukaryotes. Recombinant Cdc2 and its native homologues from pea extracts associated both in vitro and in vivo with eEF1B . A Cdc2-cyclin B complex phosphorylated recombinant plant eEF1B s, but not eEF1B . These interactions between CDK and eEF1B prompted investigations into the in vivo consequences of this relationship. Expression of cDNAs encoding rice or pea eEF1B subunits failed to complement a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant deleted for the eEF1B gene, as was previously observed for the human eEF1B . However, replacement of Thr91, the sole consensus CDK phosphorylation site in pea eEF1B , with alanine allowed the pea protein to substitute for eEF1B function in vivo. In addition, this rescued strain was severely cold sensitive, and more sensitive to translational inhibitors than wild-type yeast. Taken together, these results suggest a physiological connection between the cyclin-dependent class of kinases and a translational elongation factor in mitotic cells, and provide the first in vivo evidence that an altered form of eEF1B can serve as the guanine nucleotide exchange factor for eEF1A.Communicated by C. P. Hollenberg |
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Keywords: | Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) Interaction Elongation factor Plant Yeast |
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