title: Purification and characterisation of a tissue specific elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha 2) from rabbit muscle.
abstract: The peptide elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) has been isolated and characterised from a number of species. Recently we and others have reported the existence of an isoform of the ubiquitously expressed EF-1 alpha mRNA in higher eukaryotes, including human cells. This isoform has a tissue specific expression pattern, confining it primarily to muscle, heart, and brain. In the present study we have purified the isoform of EF-1 alpha from rabbit muscle. Using partial amino acid analysis, we can conclude that in rabbit muscle essentially only the isoform of elongation factor 1 alpha, designated EF-1 alpha 2, is translated. Preliminary activity assays show that the isoform has the same functional activities as the normal EF-1 alpha, designated EF-1 alpha 1, in relation to protein synthesis, but may behave differently in the ability to bind nucleotides. Based on the availability of the isoforms of EF-1 alpha purified from a mammalian species, it will be possible to conduct further comparative studies in order to elucidate the different functions of EF-1 alpha 1 and EF-1 alpha 2 proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark. pk2@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kristensen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cavallius
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Merrick
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009132:Muscles / Q000737:chemistry*; D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011817:Rabbits; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D020648:Peptide Elongation Factor 1; D010445:Peptide Elongation Factors; D006153:Guanosine Diphosphate; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate