title: Cloning of human and mouse brain cDNAs coding for S1, the second member of the mammalian elongation factor-1 alpha gene family: analysis of a possible evolutionary pathway.
abstract: We previously reported the cloning of a rat S1 cDNA whose deduced amino acid sequence shares high similarity (92%) with that of mammalian elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha), a protein involved in the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome during peptide synthesis. We report here the isolation of a full-length cDNA from a mouse brain library and a partial-length cDNA from a human hippocampus library which share extensive sequence similarity to rat S1 cDNA. We show that, as with mammalian EF-1 alpha S, the predicted primary amino acid sequences of rat, mouse, and human S1 are almost identical, except for one conservative substitution. These results indicate that mouse and man contain a second member of the EF-1 alpha gene family, the S1 gene. They also suggest that our result obtained in rat may be extrapolated to mouse and man.
authors.affiliation: Bloomfield Centre for Research in Aging, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Ann
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins