title: Eukaryotic initiation factor 4D. Purification from human red blood cells and the sequence of amino acids around its single hypusine residue.
abstract: Eukaryotic initiation factor 4D (eIF-4D) was purified from human red blood cells by a simple 5-step procedure. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that most of the preparations of eIF-4D were composed of variable amounts of two closely migrating forms of the factor, each of which contained a single residue of the unique amino acid hypusine. The structural similarity of the two forms of human eIF-4D was evidenced by the indistinguishable patterns of radioactivity on peptide maps of tryptic digests prepared from radioiodinated samples. A peptide containing the single hypusine residue was readily isolated from a tryptic digest of human eIF-4D by virtue of its high positive charge and hydrophilic character. Amino acid sequence determination on this peptide revealed the following primary structure around hypusine: Thr-Gly-hypusine-His-Gly-His-Ala-Lys.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008239:Lysine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010448:Peptide Initiation Factors / Q000097:blood* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D000097574:Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 5A
chemical_list: D008239:Lysine; D010448:Peptide Initiation Factors; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D000097574:Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 5A; C100028:hypusine